Saturday, February 13, 2010
Getting Faster With Age - Sam Shepard’s New Velocity
NYTimes.com: "When Sam Shepard directed the original 1985 Off Broadway production of his play “A Lie of the Mind,” about emotionally scarred young men and the damaged women in their lives, the production ran six hours at first. His latest play, “Ages of the Moon,” about two emotionally scarred men in their 60s (the damaged women remain offstage) lasts about 80 minutes."
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This article brings up a very interesting point about our software rights. Obviously, a license agreement cannot trump US law, but the question is whether or not that law applies to software sales. The difference with software compared to a book is that software can be copied with no change to the original product, and no difference in the copy. The software can also be installed, then sold. This is not fair to the producing company, as it is piracy. The article made a point of comparing software to a book. The fundamental difference with a book and software is that after a book is sold, one can no longer use the book. After software is installed, it can be sold, and one still can use the software.
I guess the point I am making is that autodesk should not be allowed to bar their customers from selling their software, but should put mechanisms in their software that make it so software cannot be installed on another computer until the software from the old computer is uninstalled.
I found the last line of the article a bit depressing, even though it doesn't really seem like it should be. I guess, that does tend to explain why he finds his current works better than his works in the 1970's which critics refer to. "Every generation laughs at the old fashions but, follows religiously the new", right? I guess it's the same for Shepard. It's funny though, when i read the title of the article I thought, well maybe if he lays off the drugs a bit more and sure enough, this new found velocity was due to his partial rehabilitation.
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