pioe[rmv] wrote:
basket case wrote:
A window came up saying that this application
does not support unauthorized copying of money,
or something like that.
Does anyone else feel, like I do, that Adobe
has stepped way over the line.
We should not be surprised.
First people accepted Product Activation – a major restriction of people’s rights to what they paid for.
I am not in any way trying to imply that your view is wrong. However, we might want to cool down and let ourselves be reminded that we actually do NOT purchase the SOFTWARE, but LICENSE (to use it). Also, I’ve had a chance to go thoroughly through many of the EULAs (for those who are not familiar with the acronym: End User License Agreement), I notice that it does limit the USE (of the program licensed to us) to a very questonable level.
For example, I seem to recall an EULA, by which you are effectively not permitted to use the software in question to make anti-government propaganda material. If I don’t like, say Toni Blair, I am still not permitted to use the FOO-SOFT(TM) to produce a poster that says, "Toni Bliar" or "Toni the Blair Witch", or anything that might make him look bad (although, since I don’t live in UK, I believe I would not even want to do such a thing). Nice one’s are permitted, it seems. IMHO, that has nothing to do with any sort of freedom, especially the freedom to express our opinions through any means possible (as long as it does not endanger the lives and rights of our fellow citizens).
We might understand the concern of FOO-SOFT(TM) for it’s reputation, but that is, IMO, no reason to limit the use of their product to "politically correct" frame. For example, if such an EULA existed in 1939, no one would be allowed to produce anything that promotes an anti-Nazi or anti-Hitler idea.
I’d say the term "corporate cenzorship" might well appy here… Not that I’m too concerned, tho.
Who can then be surprised by ever more built-in limitations?
Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway
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