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Originally Posted by John Eppstein  Mayor999 - I'm not certain which of your asinine questions you are referring to, but -
Yes, I am dead serious.
Yes, I know what an EULA is - it is an abusive quasi-legal document that attempts to force customers of software companies to relinquish their rights to a product that works properly, as advertised, and does the job it is sold to do. It also attempts to absolve said companies of any responsibility for damages resulting from the use of their product. Most EULA attempt to require consumers to repudiate certain rights that have traditionally been theirs either by federal statute or by common law.
Maybe you don't understand it, but this is, in fact, the civil rights question of the new millennium. It has direct parallels in both the Civil Rights Movement of the last half of the 20th century and the miner's and railroad worker's movements of 50 and 100 years before that, and EVERY TIME THE PEOPLE HAVE STOOD UP FOR THEMSELVES THE DISPUTE HAS BEEN SETTLED IN FAVOR OF THE PEOPLE, sometimes after considerable bloodshed on the part of those standing up for their rights. Nobody said it was easy. |
Asinine? Are you kidding? I call bullshit on your "civil rights dongle movement" and you call ME asinine?
No one is forcing you to buy or use their software or ANY software.
You are creating parallels between the civil rights movements and a optional piece of software to install?
You are nuts.
Stop crying like a little baby about not wanting to plug a dongle into your computer and use some software which does not require it. I make great use of my iLok. It actually HELPS me do my job.
No one is "selling the rest of you out" by using software which requires a dongle.