[Leaplist] Re: Microsoft Suggest Linux Hotmail Users Use Outlook Express (long)

[Sun State Martial Arts]

Dan Cherry wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2008 8:20:50 pm Phil Barnett wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 26 January 2008 08:08:30 pm Sun State Martial Arts wrote:
>>     
>>> unless you program the
>>> application that creates the data, it is not your data.
>>>       
>> I'd have to disagree here.
>>
>> If you own a business and you are running lets say Peachtree Accounting,
>> then the data that is input by you into that software is your data. It
>> doesn't belong to Peachtree.
>>     
>
> Agreed, maybe to take it a step further, If I type my business information 
> using an Underwood typewriter and G-P typing paper, neither of those 
> companies should have a claim on my information!  They're tools that I 
> purchased.  Likewise, if I record some information on Memorex tape with a 
> Panasonic tape recorder, or take a picture with Kodak film using a Minolta 
> camera - yada, yada, yada.
>
>   
the difference there is you OWN that hardware.  you do NOT own the 
software, as mentioned peachtree or quickbooks.  that data is your 
private data, but you do not OWN the code it is saved in.

-- 
Raymond L. Brunkow
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Chief Instructor and Owner
Sun State Martial Arts LLC.
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