Re: Installation
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:24:22 +0200
lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > You do not cite any sources for your various assertions, and I believe
> > you are incorrect as a matter of US law.
>
> American law doesn't apply here. Letting that aside: What is a copy?
> When you duplicate software, you get an identical duplicate which is
> indistinguishable from other duplicates of the same software.
Are you raising some sort of philosophical objection to the law, or
actually explaining what you think the law is?
> It's the same when archiving bills, for example. They seem to have come
> up with some law in Germany that requires you to store "the original"
> document --- which is bullshit because you can duplicate the document as
> many times as you want, and there isn't such a thing as an "original"
> anymore. (Got a new storage system/media and copied the data over? Had
> to recover from a backup? Defragmented the file system? Bad luck,
> because thinking in these terms means you violate the law when you do
> that because you don't have "the original" anymore ...) I don't know
> what became of it and how people are supposed to deal with an impossible
> requirement like that.
Celejar
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