[cobalt-users] Lets put this one to rest....

[Jason Ebacher <jasone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it is "right" to steal bits and byte's...I may have miss 
interpreted what he was saying....If this is what the guy wanted to do...he 
is wrong!

I know what "cracking" means ...This brings me to the term "hacking = the 
exploration of the unknown "

I do think it is worth a try to put the scripts on another machine to see 
if it works.(hacking)..why? why take apart your computer for the first 
time, to improve/repair it and or see how it works..(hacking)..

I am a hardware hacker , I rip thing apart to see how they work....You ever 
see those Netpliance I -Openers, that the were hacking ...Been there done 
that it now hangs on my dining room wall as a file server and control for 
the X10 stuff in my house, people ask why I did it , why not it kept me 
occupied and I enjoyed it...to bad the company went bankrupt due to 
stupidity sell a $600 computer for $99 with no agreement of any 
kind.......duh what's going to happen...cobalt ain't stupid and are not 
going to go under if some one does come up with a replica of there 
OS...they sell a solution not a OS.

Is it legal?, could be if the license states you can run it on one 
machine...if he moves the files to the new box... this is a back up server 
, then he is in compliance...... if he copies them and runs both boxes at 
once...NO!  This is how most are set up I.E you can make one backup copy 
but can only run one copy at any given time. Let me remind you, I'm not a 
lawyer...may be wrong...I would love to have the ability of a backup server 
ready to go and reconfigured so all I have to do is turn it on and slap the 
100/baseT to the thing and go..I think fair use would qualify in this case 
...but I may be completely wrong :)

As for the statement that you said there are many alternatives out 
there....you show me one distribution of linux or unix that is as easy to 
set up as the Qube and has the features of the Qube, and then give the 
average windows user a cube and the other distro of whatever to set up and 
what one will be running, heck you could even help the guy out by setting 
up the distro and he would still be lost and wouldn't have any clue on how 
to administer it. And this alternative cant cost more than the Cube OR Raq 
including hardware so NT doesn't count plus NT is harder than a Qube.

Basically we could go on an on about this forever kind of like the MAC PC 
battles...we shouldn't do this we all own the same hardware and OS...it is 
kind of being in the corvette owners club  except everybody in the club 
runs nitrous oxide...a very elite group.

Digitally Yours,
Jason Ebacher

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