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Originally posted by Tipsy
There was me gonna drop this...
You're still making no sense at all. It is only gonna be used on one computer. The guys not offering to sell the program to other people. He's using it to do the job it was intended for - he's using it on one PC to help him with his work ie submitting galleries for people.
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So, it's okay to make money using someone else's software product when the paying party has not bought a license for said product, or is licensed to use it in any way, remotely or installed?
Heck - you can look at it another way. Say I'm thinking about buying that bit of software, but this guy pops up and offers to use his copy for me and I don't have to buy it. He makes money using it, the author looses a sale from me.
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If someone wants to pay him for his time using it how would that be a problem?
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People used to try this line for selling items or characters in Everquest. They'd put on the auction that you weren't buying the account (which you'd never paid a license fee for or to use at all) but you were paying them for their time in creating the account.
It didn't last long. At the end of the day, Verant owned the software and you simply had a one use, no rental or resale clause there too.
Just an example.
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If the GASS guy gets pissed at someone doing that for whatever reason then it still seems plain daft to me - but it's his shout.
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Correct. I didn't write the software, but I'm sure that if I did, I'd be doing more than trying to explain software licenses and fair-use policies to you on a message board inbetween working
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Neither of your arguments do or will stand up though as far as I'm concerned. GASS remains a tool to assist hand submitting and nothing else. What the people are paying for is the time and effort it takes the guy to hand submit.
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See point above. If he was hand submitting using nothing else than the hands God gave him and a keyboard, then he'd be free and clear.
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Fuck it - that really is it. I don't have a clue how you can't see that or can see points that aren't there but genuinely care little. It's just tough to not have the last word isn't it? So I'll leave that to you as it'll make you happy.
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Thanks! How very profound of you.
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Railz - go back and read your reply with all the quotes where you start babbling about 'my customers' and tell me you make any sense. You make none at all.
Have fun people.
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I was just paraphrasing your post while directing the implication of his actions in a hypothetical sense. Maybe I should've been more clear on that and I applologize.