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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 06:54 AM EDT |
Unless history is studied it will be repeated; just this time round it gets
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| Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 11:40 AM EDT |
And the business computers of the 70s had hard disk drives...
NOT installing a program was a home computer / early PC phenomenon, not a
general computer thing.
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 11:41 AM EDT |
I don't understand why your blindingly-obvious point is not more widely
appreciated.
Imagine, for instance, a computer running a large program on a
"modern" operating system (and by "modern" I mean anything
with elements of the 1963-era Multics design). The program may never be in the
computer's memory at all -- only whichever part of it is executing at the
moment. Now remember how many computers run in "diskless workstation"
mode. No program is ever even installed in its nonexistant disk.
And, with the "cloud", the entire program may not be on ANY single
computer ANYWHERE--it could easily be distributed across continents. If any
computer connected to the internet infringes because of whatever "legal
fiction" corresponds to "installation", then EVERY computer
connected to the net infringes.
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