Re: [libreplanet-discuss] freedom #0

[Andrew A. Adams]

> Can you give an example of software that doesn't respect freedom 0?
> ("The freedom to run the program, for any purpose")

Yet another example. Mots computer science departments at Universities have 
proprietary development systems such as MS Visual Studio. The academic 
license is much cheaper (and sometimes even free - like drugs, the first hit 
is free) and often includes authority to allow students to download a copy 
onto their own PCs. However, the license for these systems allow their use 
for educational purposes only and so any software that the students produce 
using them is not allowed to then be used for production purposes - you're 
supposed to buy the commercial version of the development suite. The binaries 
these academic versions produce include symbols indicating that they were 
produced using that version and if a BSA audit finds a company running such 
software they'll be investigating the source of it.


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Professor Andrew A Adams                      aaa@meiji.ac.jp
Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan       http://www.a-cubed.info/