Supreme Court Lets Utilization Rights Stand

Moof writes "The United States Supreme Court refused to hear a case between a programmer and his former employer. What makes this news is the fact that the court is letting stand the rulings of the lower courts: Essentially if someone owns a physical copy of software, then they are allowed to modify the code as part of their regular use, no matter what other agreements are in place."

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Even the supreme court :(

[Fred_A]

Great, now the supreme court starts to utilize "utilize". What's the point of utilizing fancy new words when thare are some fine regular words we could be utilizing instead that do just as well ?

Ok so people can modify code as part of their regular utilizage, and we can uglify the language as part of our reguly utilization of it as well, blah.

That freaking guy

[Hobbes897]

He placed locks on the code and stipulated that Titleserv could run--but not alter--the programs.

So much progress from one man's prickishness.

Re:this is good to know

[bfischer]

You kids these days are something else. My archives go back to 1968, but I can't find a punch card reader anymore. ;)