Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Dean McEwan" <> | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 15:33:50 +0000 | Subject | Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED. |
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> The worst problem with expiring software is that a > company, operating in good faith, can be forced out > of business because if it.
You shouldn't buy software from crappy "on_last_legs" companies.
> Lets say that I have a company called BestInTheWorld. > Because I make the best data-base software in the world, > a lot of companies purchase a license to use this > software. The software expires in a year. This is no > problem because The software renewal is cheap. Soon > every company in Silicon Valley uses my software. > The company is going strong and needs to expand. It > issues public stock. > > Al Qaeda
Lets stop there eh? AL <self snipped>QAEDA ? ANY GOV.T would let them buy stock? Controlling Stock ???
purchases controlling interest in the company > and closes it. In one year, everybody in Silicon Valley > is out of work because all the company's software > stopped working.
Say M$ bought company that has "we can change this license at any time for this version of software" written in its license, M$ changes it and BOOM! Software now costs another $400,000 to use...
My DRM would not allow this... Good Eh?
Also GPL sources wouldn't work in proprietary work(s). > > Bad joke? Hell no. Digital thought about short-term > leasing of their software when they introduced LMF, > the license management facility. Once Digtal's lawyers > got involved, a patch was sent to everbody making damn > sure that the "expiration" capability was removed. > Nevertheless, FTP Software, that made TCP/IP to DECNET > sofware, continued to have software that expired. > > Basically, in many states in the USA, you can't sell or > lease something that will become worthless or unusable if > the seller or leasor no longer exists. If the renter makes > a good-faith effort to pay the rent, the renter continues > to enjoy use of the leased property. Creating property that > doesn't allow this violates common law. > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson > Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). > Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it. >
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