Re: HP-15C LE Emulator Problem Message #17 Posted by Bart (UK) on 13 Sept 2011, 9:17 a.m., in response to message #15 by bill platt
In the stricktest application, it limits the use to one computer, e.g. SAE documnets:
From their site (SAE DRM Overview): What are the restrictions on how I can use my purchased PDF document?
Once you complete your purchase and open the secure document, your PDF will be permanently locked to that computer. You may view it as many times as you like and print it twice. You will not be able to use the document on another computer, or network it to other computers.
This restricts my right to use it as I wish, where wish. Yes, I can print it, but what's the use of a printed version. These documents can be several 100's of pages (even > 1000 pages) big. I want to take it (actually usually several) with me when visiting customers or contractors - which are often overseas. Yes, I can use a laptop for travel, but have a desktop on my desk at work. Now I must contact SAE to transfer the licence to the laptop & back again every time? Or buy multiple licences? I prefer the old Borland approach that Marwan quoted. I respect that and I for one do not pass on copies ("I paid for it, so can you"). However, my ideal world has been broken by piracy, and providers feel that that they should use DRM to protect their products. They have a right to implement it, I have a right not to buy it.
How does this affect my use of the 15C emulator? I would want to use it at work and at home. Between them I have been through 6 PC's in 5 years. It would be OK if the counter decremented with an un-install (I remember there used to be software that had a token tranferred back to a floppy upon uninstall). But now after a few years I'd be left not being able to use the emulator, unlike the physical calculator that we all know is used for decades. So my use of the emulator is restricted, thus I'd rather not use it at all.
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