Lawyers, lawyers, and (yes) more lawyers on Borland flap [Politech]
Borland’s new license gives them the power to invade your home or business looking for pirated copies of their software. Theoretically this is to prevent people from using more copies than they payed for. However, it seems to me that it’s counterproductive even without the privacy concerns.
If someone is going to pirate Borland software with this license, they are better off pirating all of their copies instead of only some. If they do that then they never agreed to the license, because they never payed for any legal copies, and if Borland wants to go after them they have to get a warrant.
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