John C. Dvorak: This all began in the 70s. I was very young man. This began with a software entrepreneur named Seymour Rubinstein, who was the purveyor of WordStar among other products, had developed a very interesting ironclad licencing agreement. He always believed that in some day, in the distant, not too distant future or distant future, everything would be licenced, including books and television shows that you watch. So you can’t copy them. You can’t because you’re licenced it and you make maybe you can make one backup for personal use, which they’re always fighting against that too, by the way.
So the idea of everything beingĀ licenced evolved into the shrink wrap licence, which became law, which is, which is that Terms of Service licence that when you open up a CD used to be floppies, for the end user agreement that is on a piece of paper, when you rip open the package, you have accepted it? Yes, you are now you are now under contract, I always get I always say have your 13 year old kid open it, because they’re not bound by the same legal restrictions. This John C. Dvorak’s Tip of the Day.