Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>
> It doesn't matter what they think. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
>

I'm glad you're not a Judge :-P  (Or 'my Lord' as they would say in the UK.)

Seriously though, there's another way of looking at this mess, from Adobe's
standpoint. Let's say *I* am the President of Adobe. My first thought upon being
made aware of this situation would be to say, "OMG, FIX IT!!!" (But that hasn't
happened.) So my next thought would probably be, "Well, we made some kind of
mistake, so we're just going to have to live with it now." (Hard to believe,
though, since a fix could be so easily implemented.)

WHY Adobe hasn't taken down that page (or re-worded it) is anyone's guess. There
are only three scenarios I can think of:
1) Everyone at Adobe is 'asleep at the wheel.' Doubtful, of course.
2) They don't care.
3) They have some reason for keeping the page *as-is*, regardless of the
software being freely available.

In any case, the end result is the same: Free software! With no (ethical)
strings attached.

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