Comments on: Will Apple’s stance on DRM affect Canadian law? http://saunderslog.com/2009/01/07/will-apples-stance-on-drm-affect-canadian-law/ A daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:12:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alec http://saunderslog.com/2009/01/07/will-apples-stance-on-drm-affect-canadian-law/comment-page-1/#comment-1227513 Alec Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:20:05 +0000 http://saunderslog.com/2009/01/07/will-apples-stance-on-drm-affect-canadian-law/#comment-1227513 I think software is a different beast, and one needs to look at the software and the use case for it. Server software really should be licensed to a specific device while end user software may be usable on multiple devices. The nature of software is that it is installed on a device, and usually movable from one device to another, and licensing terms are flexible enough in most cases to accommodate that. Not only that, but a particular piece of software can often be replaced by a similar piece. If you don't like the licensing terms on one, go find one with terms more suited to your tastes. In short, I don't have many objections to reasonable rights management on software. It doesn't impact me. It took the software industry more than a decade to figure this out, and the entertainment industry is making all the same mistakes. I think software is a different beast, and one needs to look at the software and the use case for it. Server software really should be licensed to a specific device while end user software may be usable on multiple devices.

The nature of software is that it is installed on a device, and usually movable from one device to another, and licensing terms are flexible enough in most cases to accommodate that. Not only that, but a particular piece of software can often be replaced by a similar piece. If you don’t like the licensing terms on one, go find one with terms more suited to your tastes.

In short, I don’t have many objections to reasonable rights management on software. It doesn’t impact me. It took the software industry more than a decade to figure this out, and the entertainment industry is making all the same mistakes.

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