Removal of technological copy protections are legal in Denmark. We have stupid politicians, but at least they’re not that stupid as to make it illegal for me to access my own data.
This is another reason I like to be in DK. So, emulation is usually less illegal than removal of technological copy protections. The OS will be licensed, and the tenor of the mac contributions to sites like this will change utterly. So we may confidently look forward sometime in the early summer of next year to this debate being over. But in the end, they either do, or they become swamped by the rush, so it doesn’t matter. The renunciation is the abandonment of the search for a bargain.Īlas, as the early Christians found when debating circumcision, sometimes, in order to widen the appeal of the cult, you do have to relax some of the rules that were applied to the early joiners. In this case, since we live in a post modern age, the rituals and fastings and flagellations just consist of the ultimate contemporary sacrifice, the spending of more money on an object than is strictly necessary. There will always be people who want to be members of a religion, without having gone through the somewhat bizarre and unpleasant initiation rites that the early members went through. Its a problem that the early Christians also had. Very well put: its the essence of the problem very succinctly. “Apple is selling not just hardware, not just software, but the “Mac experience”. Whether they can do it technically is a whole other question. Not purely by post sales restrictions on use. Just as MS will never be able to stop you running Office under Wine, so Apple will never be able to stop you running a bought copy of X on whatever you want.
all that sort of thing is unenforceable.Īpple with OSX is in exactly the same situation as MS with Office. But the kind of restriction that says, only on my hardware, while it is technically possible to use it with other hardware, or only with my gasoline, when all gasoline is the same, or only in my cd players, when all cdplayers will play it…. It may be that there are some exceptions to do with health and safety. In the EC the informed view is that clauses which try to enforce post sales restrictions on use are just about always unenforceable on both counts.
Whether it is enforceable depends on whether it falls foul of consumer protection legislation and anti trust legislation. That does not mean that any clause contained in a Eula is enforceable however. Now, as to Eulas, in some countries, Eulas in themselves do constitute a valid contract. Apple has indeed sold you a copy of the software, and you can indeed do what you want with it, subject to local law on copyright and cracking.
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“you have no legal entittlement to the software you LICENSE, you do not own the software and therefore Apple has every right to tell you what you can and can not do, you have agreed to a license, and in most contries a license is a legally binding contract, so no, you’re wrong Apple can stop you modifying their software.”Īs usual, this is completely confused.
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