Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Cad software

On Tuesday 08 March 2005 22:21, Ron Ginger wrote:
> AutoCAd is one of the major partners in a group called the Business
> Software Alliance. Their function is to find companies that are using
> illegal copis of software and either sue then or extort LARGE ammounts
> of money for legal licenses.

> You DO NOT own most software, you only have a license to use it.

[Personal opinion]

Please insert "running on proprietory operating systems" in the above
comment.. As I am sure you are aware, there is a massive range of
applications available under GPL (full text here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ) - Using software released under the
GPL gives you certain rights...

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as
you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and
disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of
the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it,
thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such
modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you
also meet all of these conditions:

A third reason for using GPL software - You are free of fear from predatory
tactics of bully-boy corporations whose only interest is extorting money for
"bug fixes" (amongst other things..)

A little background reading on Free and Open Software:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html


Regards, Paul.

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