RE: [MI400] How does this software work??

["Bale, Dan" <Dan.Bale@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Did you sign a license agreement when you bought that car?  Wow.

I wouldn't know, I haven't bought a new car in over a decade.

But you, or your company, probably did sign a license agreement before
that AS/400 was shipped to your premises.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP:jlangston@celsinc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:00 PM
> To:   'mi400@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: [MI400] How does this software work??
>
> Say for is selling a certain car, one with 200 HP, one with 300 HP.
> I'm cheap, so I buy the 200 HP model.  Then I find that the cars
> are exactly the same, except that the 300 HP has a different chip.
> I go out and buy the chip from some 3rd party, and now my car is
> 300 HP.  Am I in violation of any licensing agreement or such? I
> don't think so, and I dont' think it would be morally wrong for me
> to try to get as much out of the machine as I can, nor even legally
> wrong for that matter.
>
> IBM wants me to pay them to get more out of the machine by upping
> my limits.  But here is a 3rd party way of doing it where I pay
> someone else a cheaper price than I would have to pay IBM.
>
> I really don't see the moral, or legal, quandry thinking about it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston