[Info-vax] A POP oddity, moves messages to MAIL without reading them
Mark Daniel
mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au
Sat Sep 19 12:54:59 EDT 2009
P. Sture wrote:
> In article <003dbce2$0$2974$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
> Mark Daniel <mark.daniel at wasd.vsm.com.au> wrote:
>
>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>> Mark Daniel wrote:
>>>
>>>> By definition, most hobbyist activity is not a necessity :-)
>>> Which is why moving to OS-X removes those "non commercial use"
>>> restriction of the Hobbyist programme.
>> By definition, hobbyist activity is "non-commercial use" ;-)
>
> We had a debate about this a few years ago. When does hobbyist activity
> become "commercial"? IIRC someone brought up the example of selling
Obviously not a legal definition but
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/commercial
suggests
"prepared, done, or acting with sole or chief emphasis on salability,
profit..."
with 'chief emphasis' seeming appropriate. Of course it only really
becomes "commercial" when your legal representatives fail to establish
their point of law :-)
> their daughter's knitting patterns from a VMS hosted web server.
>
> Church/scouts/kids' school etc projects - commercial or not?
>
> And last year I wanted to convert some tax tables to another format. The
> file layouts screamed COBOL at me, so that is what I used, but if it had
> been for commercial gain I would have had to use some other language on
> my Mac.
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