Digital BW, The Print

I must say I find the licence perfectly sensible.  Else we could simply rent
one out to anyone who wants it.  Then there wouldn't be anything to rent
because nobody would invest the capital to develop it.  Then you'd really be
sucking wind.  These guys sell a complex instrument and very complex
software serving a very good purpose.  They deserve to earn a fair return as
a result.  I'm simply surprised that Bill can do what he does - offer for
free generic profiles made with X-Rite and GM equipment and software.  I
hope he has special arrangements with them.


> From: Bert Katzung <katzung1@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 23:06:31 -0800
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Sharing EyeOne Profiles
> 
> I'm a novice in the whole profile arena, but this thread has reduced my
> enthusiasm for getting a GMB device of any sort (I gather they make the
> eye-1?) from about 99% down to 1% or less.
> Maybe there are a few other novices who could profit from some explanation
> of what seems to be an extraordinary restriction on what one can do after
> paying one's one money for a device/software. (I understand why Microsoft
> and Apple don't want people to make copies of their operating systems, but
> they don't presume to prevent me from giving a document that I made in Word
> to someone else.)
>     Is the purpose of the restrictive license simply to sell one eye-1 to
> every user of profiles? That doesn't seem very realistic, given the price of
> the eye-1.
>     Second, the license quoted below is very definitely in the singular
> (Device, not Devices). Can they mean that you can only use one eye-1 on a
> single printer? Is there something in the software that can enforce that? Is
> this one of those things that requires activation with the entire system
> running so that the GMB police can characterize exactly what scanner,
> monitor, and printer you have in your system?
> 
> Pardon my paranoia, but the whole business reminds me of the horrible old
> days of copy protection with dongles and all the rest.
> 
> Bert
> 
> katzung1@...
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