...each with its own clever phrase for that day.
I wonder how long it will be before someone offers a "full-service" laundromat with T-shirts made of this material. Take your T-shirts to the cleaners, and get them back with a fresh supply of clever phrases for the next month. Of course the upload mechanism will be encrypted so you have to go back to get another batch of fresh clever phrases.
This could give a hi-tech twist to the old saying..."no ticket, no laundry".
...I just heard one these ads on a local AM talk radio station. The announcer said "you only need one former or disgruntled employee to pick up the phone" and gave Jan. 31 as the date by which you should buy some software. Even after visiting the BSA web site, it is still unclear to me how one obtains this amnesty - surely just buying some software and saving the receipt isn't enough? (i.e., when the marshals storm your office, showing them a receipt from Fry's probably won't cut the mustard.)
Hard to establish liability for free software. But shareware authors who charge a small fee (and hence make a direct profit) might be easier to target should this liability idea take hold.
Shareware would become enough of a liability for small-time authors that they would be forced to either give up and find a publisher with deep pockets, or else give up revenue all together and just give their software away for free.
Perhaps a threshold could be established to determine when liability kicks in?
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...each with its own clever phrase for that day. I wonder how long it will be before someone offers a "full-service" laundromat with T-shirts made of this material. Take your T-shirts to the cleaners, and get them back with a fresh supply of clever phrases for the next month. Of course the upload mechanism will be encrypted so you have to go back to get another batch of fresh clever phrases. This could give a hi-tech twist to the old saying..."no ticket, no laundry".
...I just heard one these ads on a local AM talk radio station. The announcer said "you only need one former or disgruntled employee to pick up the phone" and gave Jan. 31 as the date by which you should buy some software. Even after visiting the BSA web site, it is still unclear to me how one obtains this amnesty - surely just buying some software and saving the receipt isn't enough? (i.e., when the marshals storm your office, showing them a receipt from Fry's probably won't cut the mustard.)
Hard to establish liability for free software. But shareware authors who charge a small fee (and hence make a direct profit) might be easier to target should this liability idea take hold. Shareware would become enough of a liability for small-time authors that they would be forced to either give up and find a publisher with deep pockets, or else give up revenue all together and just give their software away for free. Perhaps a threshold could be established to determine when liability kicks in?