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Re: EZ-Mate



He just wants to whine

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:457c2df5$0$3576$815e3792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Technically it's the same, but you'd really have a tough time bringing a
> copyright infringement suit given:
>
> The software was designed to talk to specific alarm panels that are long
> discontinued and not manufactured or supported by Radionics. RAM can only
> run on DOS with a dongle or very expensive Radionics/Tecmar modem both of
> which could only be purchased through Radionics by authorized dealers. I
bet
> Radionics doesn't even have the old RAM software anylonger.
>
> They'd never be able to prove actual damages so a suit would never happen.
> In this respect it is different. Radionics is not being damaged by techs
> trying to support their old equipment and keeping Radionics equipment
alive
> and working properly.
>
> Just a thought.
>
>
> "Robert L Bass" <sales @ comcast + net> wrote in message
> news:jYydndbk3pogDObYnZ2dnUVZ_t6qnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> |> This is antique software we're talking about here...over 15 years
> | > obsolete -
> | > an will only run on an antique machine. It's not quite the same as
> | > distributing current software.
> |
> | No, it's the same.  The point is that what you do with it really doesn't
> | matter because the copyright owners don't care.  The same applies to Jim
> | Rojas' marvelous website.  The owners of the copyrighted material which
he
> | sells don't care (at least most of them don't make any effort to stop
him)
> | so it doesn't matter what he does.  I happen to agree with what you and
he
> | are doing.
> |
> | Idiots like Leuck and Jiminex complain about my posts but not because
they
> | care at all about copyrights.  They also don't care about universal
> | passwords that literally millions of people know.  It's just a lame
excuse
> | to start more fighting in the newsgroup.  Jiminex does it because he
lives
> | to hate.  He's a sick jerk who is so fixated on his hatred that he can't
> | function without venting rage on a daily basis.  Leuck enjoys stirring
up
> | strife not because he hates.  That would require that he actually cared
> | about anything at all.  He doesn't.  He just enjoys watching other
morons
> | like Jiminex and Sabodish jump off the deep end.  It's his substitute
for
> | having a life.
> |
> |
>
>




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