| Art Alexion on 11 Nov 2007 15:29:30 -0000 |
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On Friday, 09 November 2007 16:29, James Barrett wrote: > Additionally, their license agreement forbids modifying a chumby in ways > which hamper its connection to the chumby servers or in any way hamper > other chumbys from connecting to your chumby. I would suppose that > whatever you happen to put onto your chumby _will_ become public in some > way, shape or form (granted that you don't break their agreement). Oh, and > if you hack the chumby, you void its warrantee. I think the concept of licensing something you sell rather than lease is a bizarre one. Can you think of any tangible thing that you bought where you are prohibited from doing whatever you want to it, including setting it on fire if so disposed? (I'm sure somebody can, but I can't.) Commercial licensing has gotten so out of hand that I wouldn't be surprised if the next MS license prevented you from using Windows to mock or criticise Bill Gates. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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