And also whether EULAs can apply to hardware which you purchase (a DVD player). The hardware may (and often does) contain embedded software, but once you have purchased the hardware you are (within the boundaries of criminal law) at liberty to use it in any way and for whatever purpose you choose. You are not restricted to the way which the manufacturer would like you to use it.
I am sure that, for example, an electric drill manufacturer would not be allowed to dictate that the purchaser not use it as a screwdriver, but that you must also buy an electric screwdriver (which the same manufacturer also produces.)
The shipper does not normally have to worry about duties etc in the destination country. Every time I have ordered something from another country, I have been responsible for paying the duty to the delivery agent (courier or post office)
Why should a hardware supplier have the right to dictate what the hardware is used for? There have been many instances of things being put to uses which the manufacturer did not even imagine when the product was first released, and sometimes these uses have become more popular than the original purpose of the item - and have increased sales of the item.
This is NOT the same as gaining access to / duplicating copyright works.
Yet, if you had followed the European mechanism of providing dedicated 'area codes' to cell phones, a landline caller would be charged the same for a call to a cell anywhere in the country irrespective of where the owner actually lives. This would then remove the problem of location based cell numbers when you move. You could then move from Dallas to Seatle and keep the same cell number.
Telephone number portability is just as bad. Not that you can't do it, but it's really hard and expensive. Every phone call becomes a database dip. Consider the size and speed of that distributed database.
It does not have to work like that. We have had number portability, both landline and cell, in the UK for some time. I do not know the exact mechanism, but I know that when you port your number the call is initially offered to the network originally "owning" the number, this then recognises that the number had been ported and gives the correct destination network. So only those numbers which have been ported result in a database lookup.
There is one very large difference here. The code was published on the "official" nullsoft web site, therefore it was released officially. There would be a considerable difference between the Windows source code being published with a GPL licence on www.microsoft.com/windows/source/ and an employee "leaking" it and publishing somewhere else.
But that is posted on the company web site. Therefore, unless the web site was hacked, the software was posted "on behalf of" the company. Therefore, as the saying go, "it is looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck", "the cat is out of the bag" and "it is no use locking the stable door once the horse has bolted"
The company make take internal action against the employee(s) who posted the software to the web site, but they are still bound by the actions of their employee(s).
The internal authority of the employee does not matter (except intermally in the company). If the employee acts as though with the authority of the company (eg by posting to the official software download site), despite not following the prescribed internal procedures and obtaining the correct internal authority, the employee is still acting on behalf of the company.
The only people who can leave feedback on eBay are the seller and buyer in the particular transaction. So in order to leave feedback for him you would have to win one of his auctions.
There was a case a few years ago of a company putting a 'time bomb' in their software which triggered if the user did not renew the support contract. The courts hung them out to dry big time. So would MS not suffer the same fate having to pay large damages to the affected users?
And it is against the law, per the FCC according to Cingular Wireless, for them to activate a phone from another carrier on their network.
If the FCC are mandating that networks allow number portability, should they not also change the rules so as to allow the customer to keep their existing phone?
Why do you need a new phone? All you should need to do is get a SIM card for the new network and, if necessary, get the phone unlocked from your existing network.
A university should know better. They should know that broadband refers to the mechanism of sending the data on the wire and has nothing to do with the speed of the connection.
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This is what comes of marketting departments taking a technical term and redefining it. The opposite of broadband is not narrowband, but baseband (eg the defunct V.35).
What can be done to stop sales and marketting (and politicians) from diluting perfectly good technical terms.
I think that France may be going the same way. If I order (online) 3 CDs from France, the odds are that one of them will be copy protected. Yet no mention of this is made on the web site.
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And also whether EULAs can apply to hardware which you purchase (a DVD player). The hardware may (and often does) contain embedded software, but once you have purchased the hardware you are (within the boundaries of criminal law) at liberty to use it in any way and for whatever purpose you choose. You are not restricted to the way which the manufacturer would like you to use it.
I am sure that, for example, an electric drill manufacturer would not be allowed to dictate that the purchaser not use it as a screwdriver, but that you must also buy an electric screwdriver (which the same manufacturer also produces.)
The shipper does not normally have to worry about duties etc in the destination country. Every time I have ordered something from another country, I have been responsible for paying the duty to the delivery agent (courier or post office)
Or with the cable company intercepting the feed when the TV station goes to an ad break and substitute their own ads.
How is putting hardware to a use not intended by the manufacturer "circumventing a coptright protection system"?
Why should a hardware supplier have the right to dictate what the hardware is used for? There have been many instances of things being put to uses which the manufacturer did not even imagine when the product was first released, and sometimes these uses have become more popular than the original purpose of the item - and have increased sales of the item.
This is NOT the same as gaining access to / duplicating copyright works.
So presumably at some point NAI have taken over Network General. Though, in general, I associate Network General with hardware and NAI with software.
With the ITU conference on the Radio Spectrum allocation taking place very soon, are announcements like this not "jumping the gun" a little?
Yet, if you had followed the European mechanism of providing dedicated 'area codes' to cell phones, a landline caller would be charged the same for a call to a cell anywhere in the country irrespective of where the owner actually lives. This would then remove the problem of location based cell numbers when you move. You could then move from Dallas to Seatle and keep the same cell number.
There is one very large difference here. The code was published on the "official" nullsoft web site, therefore it was released officially. There would be a considerable difference between the Windows source code being published with a GPL licence on www.microsoft.com/windows/source/ and an employee "leaking" it and publishing somewhere else.
But that is posted on the company web site. Therefore, unless the web site was hacked, the software was posted "on behalf of" the company. Therefore, as the saying go, "it is looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck", "the cat is out of the bag" and "it is no use locking the stable door once the horse has bolted"
The company make take internal action against the employee(s) who posted the software to the web site, but they are still bound by the actions of their employee(s).
The internal authority of the employee does not matter (except intermally in the company). If the employee acts as though with the authority of the company (eg by posting to the official software download site), despite not following the prescribed internal procedures and obtaining the correct internal authority, the employee is still acting on behalf of the company.
Often followed by a message welcoming you to whatever server it is.
The only people who can leave feedback on eBay are the seller and buyer in the particular transaction. So in order to leave feedback for him you would have to win one of his auctions.
You can let the buyers know that the seller was selling something for free and that it was illegal for them not to tell the buyers.
Unfortunately eBay would call that "Auction Interference" and may suspend you for it.
There was a case a few years ago of a company putting a 'time bomb' in their software which triggered if the user did not renew the support contract. The courts hung them out to dry big time. So would MS not suffer the same fate having to pay large damages to the affected users?
If the FCC are mandating that networks allow number portability, should they not also change the rules so as to allow the customer to keep their existing phone?
And if you change carriers, you can just put the new carrier's SIM in your existing phone.
Why do you need a new phone? All you should need to do is get a SIM card for the new network and, if necessary, get the phone unlocked from your existing network.
Or "You've got no mail"?
A university should know better. They should know that broadband refers to the mechanism of sending the data on the wire and has nothing to do with the speed of the connection.
This is what comes of marketting departments taking a technical term and redefining it. The opposite of broadband is not narrowband, but baseband (eg the defunct V.35).
What can be done to stop sales and marketting (and politicians) from diluting perfectly good technical terms.
I think that France may be going the same way. If I order (online) 3 CDs from France, the odds are that one of them will be copy protected. Yet no mention of this is made on the web site.
Keeping the data forever would be against the law (Data Protection Act) in the UK and I suspect also in rest of Europe.
Yet they still put old versions of other applications, eg MySQL and Xine, in the new release.