Re: Programs you write

> > > > What if someone checked your book out of the library rather than buying
> > > > Damn..you'd loose the profit from the sale of the book..too bad, eh?
> > > Libraries are not a form of piracy.
> > Neither is loaning someone a copy of QuickBasic.

>   If you're not using it at the same time, and the license agreement permits
> you do to so.  (I'm unsure of what Microsoft's policy on that is, but I know
> Borland's is that their software must be treated "like a book".  As long as
> there is NO POSSIBILITY of two people running the same copy of the program at
> the same time, they don't care what you do with it).

I believe you'll find, that you are entitled to make a backup copy, but if
you lend it out, you have to lend out the original AND the backup copy as
well to the same person. The 2 cannot be split up...