Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 01:08:25 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Technical Information" <tech_info@threespace.com>, "FreeBSD Advocacy" <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? Message-ID: <004e01c10529$aa956500$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010704102824.017f8008@threespace.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Technical >Information >Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 7:33 AM >To: FreeBSD Advocacy >Subject: RE: BSD, .Net comments - any reponse to this reasoning? > > >Actually, I've heard that Borland is going to be implementing a similar >scheme in its next generation of development tools and require the user to >register online or by some other means in order to get a key to run the >software for more than a limited period of time. Your software then >essentially becomes a very expensive time-limited shareware demo until you >complete that process. > >Just as Microsoft led the Windows application industry away from version >numbers (like 3.11, 4.0, 6.2a, etc.), I suspect that their legitimizing >this new form of licensing will incite a lot of other companies to follow >their lead. Hopefully they won't all start telling us that we'll have to >renew those licenses every few years or so either. > Frankly, if they refrained from doing this there would be no point in setting up this kind of licensing to start with. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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