Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!bria!mike Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Preventing date rollback Message-ID: <356@bria> Date: 14 Jan 91 12:36:45 GMT References: <292@bria.AIX> <333@bria> <448@minya.UUCP> Reply-To: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik) Distribution: comp Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 19 In article <448@minya.UUCP> minya.UUCP!jc (John Chambers) writes: >> Assuming that no one pointed a gun at your head and said "buy this software", >> you made a choice, and with that choice comes rules. Live with it or >> get out. > >Sorry, but despite how macho and righteous this may sound in print, >it wouldn't last very long in most courts. [...] You would have a point *if* the company that you bought the software from did not disclose to you that it had a copy protection mechanism. If you bought the product, knowing that it had copy protection and the nature of that protection, then you made a choice. Live with it or get out. Doing your homework on a package ahead of time is also food for thought ... -- Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike -- technoignorami (tek'no-ig'no-ram`i) a group of individuals that are constantly found to be saying things like "Well, it works on my DOS machine ..."