Re: Microsoft finally acknowledges the security drumbeats

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 02/12/02 

From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:45:27 GMT

In article <Oxca8.2355$5o.968972@newsr2.u-net.net>, "Dave Korn"
<no.spam@my.mailbox.invalid> wrote:
> I figure that I have the moral right to steal anything that anyone
>attempts to entrap me into selling myself into slavery for.

Yuck. I figure that you have no moral right to steal anything.

You have a moral right to say "no, on those terms, I will not buy your
software", and you also have a moral (and legal, to some extent) right to say
"that's an unconscionable clause, and I will not abide by that clause".

But no, by my morals, you have no right to steal the software. Either dispute
the clause, refuse the contract (and the product), or use the product as its
authors request. I don't like the fact that CompUSA posts a guard outside
their store, dressed to look like a policeman, and who demands to search your
bag every time you leave the store - but that doesn't give me any right to
steal from them.

Alun.
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