ghenniga@hertz.NMSU.Edu (Gary Hennigan) (06/29/91)
>>You may also need help from legal experts. If you do not have the >>manual or the original diskettes (which should indicate the >>version as either 5.0 or 5.1) you are likely using the software >>illegally. In addition, your copy may be incomplete, improperly >>installed, contain mixed version files, and/or contain vandalware >>(i.e. a virus). If your needs are great enough to risk these flaws, >>aren't they great enough to support the purchase of a legal copy? ENOUGH ALREADY!!!! There are other reasons why a person may not have a set of manuals for software and destroying his character on the net, as opposed to at least showing some restraint and emailing the guy, is RIDICULOUS. There are at least two good reasons why a person may not have a set of manuals for software: 1) This guy appears to need to know if his code, which he may have much time and effort invested in, will run with MS FORTRAN. I don't know about you but I for one am not going to pay $350 dollars for a product only to find out it doesn't have the capabilities I'm looking for. 2) The most probable and understandable reason is that maybe he's using the compiler at a site which holds a site license for the product. Have you ever seen a company that gives you a set of manuals (without extra cost) for each machine you're running on when you purchase a site license!!! For instance, here at the university we have a site license for many products, including several MS ones, does this mean that every student gets a set of manuals for the products; if so I'd like to go to that university!!! I have yet to see any of these PC's with a set of manuals next to them for all the products we have licensed!!! In fact I was told that there is only one set of documentation for each of the products and that the head of my department or our Engineer/Tech has the documentation and these people rarely have the time or the inclination run library services for the stuff! So I guess the point is to not point a finger at the guy in front of, literally, the whole world without at least giving him a chance to explain/defend his actions. He posted to the net for help and got nothing but flack(sp?), not exactly the purpose of this group or the net as a whole, IMHO. -- Gary Hennigan +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu, henninsf@maxwel.NMSU.Edu + + Electrical Engineering; PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics + + Opinons are my own, after all I'm still just a student! + +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+