Re: License Restrictions revisited
Re: License Restrictions revisited
- Subject: Re: License Restrictions revisited
- From: "ATMOS DESIGN / Udo J. Machiels" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 12:43:24 +0100
What an idiots,
I will not sell or buy this stuff at all for that reason and I will stop
recommending it!
Freedom of speech? Down the drain!
Unbelievable!
Udo
ATMOS DESIGN
UK
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New device from Color Vision. I was wondering why I didn9t hear anything
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from anyone about this and saw this:
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http://www.robgalbraith.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB3&Number=1
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37673&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
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http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1003&message=5237878
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> Got my printfix today and though I habitually just click past license
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> agreements I decided to read this one because I was curious about what you
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> could do with the profiles created. No surprise here - as expected you're
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not
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> allowed to distribute them for free or for profit. But the shocker was the
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> next paragraph (E):
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> Quote:
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>
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> 5. License Restrictions. You may not do any of the following yourself, or
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> through any other person and you may not permit any third party with whom
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you
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> have a business relationship to do any of the following:......
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> (E) publish or otherwise communicate any review of or information about
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> Software performance to any third party without the prior written consent
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of
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> ColorVision;
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>
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> So I won't be able to communicate any of my findings here I suppose
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>
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> IMO this is absolutely ridiculous. I'd be in violation if I simply made an
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> off-hand remark, negative or positive to a friend, on my website, or here.
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The
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> lawyers have gone nuts and some execs need to realize the consequences of
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not
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> keeping them in rein.
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>
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Since license restrictions have been discussed in the past, and I9d really
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like to know if anyone can possibly comment on this device, I present this
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for your inspection and comments (if you are not unwilling to become a felon
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<g>)
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>
Andrew Rodney
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