A question for management types.

Sheesh, apologies for all the spelling/grammatical errors in that last post... usually I'm a little more awake by 10AM...

It's been around 25 years, so I can't remember for sure what was the software, but at Omnicomp/GenRad Phoenix I got a call from some software vendor claiming unlawful software copying.

I advised them that, for admission to the building, they'd need not only a warrant, but also documentation naming the disgruntled employee "rat". Otherwise I would instruct the guards to seize their ass and call the police.

They never showed up ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Scilab is getting quite impressive, and it's free.

Of course not, because your reply convinced them that you didn't use pirated copies of their software.

OTOH if in fact you HAD used illegal SW you might not have dared to bluff as boldly as you did. If they'd decided to come after you with a warrant, what do you do? Delete all copies of the SW? Clear out all printouts from the office?

I think the chance of intimidating a SW pirate into doing something "stupid" by announcing surprise visits etc. aren't bad at all, except that they annoy the heck out of lawful (paying) customers.

Just as the stupid un-skippable copyright trailers of DVDs do. They in fact encourage copying because that's the only way to get rid of them.

robert

He can't help it. It comes naturally.

And after you buy all the toys you want for yourself, you sometimes buy some for the grand kids?

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Any particular reason for your latest out-of-the-blue insult, or is it just that time of month for you?

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Filter expired? >:->

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You post a lot of stupid s*it, like the message I'm replying to. Are you out of tampons again? You're bloody stupid.

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'Victoria's Secret' isn't a toy catalog, for the grand kids.

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Perhaps not for *the* grand kids, though the kid is now married and SWMBO is hoping for grand kids. ;-)

I have a granddaughter already a sophomore in college, with a serious boy friend. So I'm not far from great-grandchildren ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Haven't heard of Sketchup, and I can't tell much glancing at Google's page for it. I have Cadopia's Intellicad 4, a version from four or five years ago. I learned the basics of Autocad with something like R12 in the late '80's, but this thing does just as well as far as "manual" drawing. It runs lisp like Autocad, but with less than perfect compatibility (some functions are named differently, and perhaps other problems I forget). Registration was $149 (a 30 day free trial download ran out, and I decided I couldn't live without it), but Intellicad is an 'open source' Autocad-compatible thing with several vendors offering commercial versions, and there's supposedly been one or two free (compiled, running on Windows) binary versions around - I saw this discussed on Usenet, probably alt.cad.intellicad, years ago. I had some questions about it shortly after I registered it (I forget what, it was some 'advanced' for me thing I was wondering how to do), but could never get registered on Cadopia's forum, and an email to that effect got no response. But for what it does, it still works fine for me.

I heard that you're so old that you had to hand assemble your first electrons. ;-)

I suggest that you use a killfile to spare yourself the burden of having to read posts that you find in some way to be undesirable. I certainly will: *PLONK*

In the meantime, I refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.

Don't be so negative.

John

Quite good for so early in the morning, John ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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Gotta put positive spin on it, eh?