Re: [Iotops] maintain ownership

[William_J_G Overington <[e-mail]>]

> We could define several new words, how ever many we consider 
> necessary, and never change the meanings once defined.
An End User Licence Agreement (EULA) can cause problems.
I have no experience of EULAs with Internet of Things devices, but my 
experiences with EULAs in relation to fonts may be of interest and have 
resonance with EULAs for Internet of Things devices.
One of the great design features of some computer operating systems, 
including Windows 10, is that most applications use fonts from a central 
fonts folder on the computer.
So when I am using the Serif PagePlus desktop publishing software to 
produce a PDF (Portable Document Format) document I can use any 
appropriately licenced font that is in the fonts folder of my home 
computer.
So I often use Goudita SF, a rather nice Venetian-style font bundled 
with PagePlus, a font based upon a typeface used by Nicolas Jenson in 
Venice in the 1470s.
There are lots of fonts out there and I would happily buy some of them, 
but the problem is often the EULAs. This is because I have a small 
webspace and I like to upload PDF documents that I produce with fonts 
embedded within them and make them free to read, no registration 
required, so I have no knowledge of how many copies, if any, are read by 
people accessing them on the web. The EULAs often want really high 
licence fees for known quantities of web accesses, and so I just cannot 
afford that and also I have no way of counting downloads and the net 
effect is that, no matter how good the design, I just do not buy or use 
the font because of the terms of the EULA.
So, I only use fonts supplied with the software or with other software 
from Serif, a few generously-offered open source fonts, and some fonts 
that I have produced myself using the High-Logic software programs 
FontCreator and Scanahand.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/
So maybe we need to have a new word, sanseulaship, from "sans (without) 
eula ownership". This would be pronounced with 'sans' as in sands 
without the 'd', eula pronounced 'yoo-la' and ship as in 'ownership, 
thus four syllables, san(d)s - yoo - la - ship.
Example sentences:
This company will only purchase sanseulaship devices.
The sanseulaship policy of the manufacturer has increased the sales of 
its devices and their widespread deployment.
A word that I coined, telesoftware, is now in the Oxford English 
Dictionary. The coining of new words to encapsulate new meanings is 
entirely acceptable and part of the way that the English language 
evolves and develops over time.
If the word sanseulaship is to be useful and become used we need a 
precise definition to be produced and agreed by this group, then 
published and sent to some dictionaries and to some legal deposit 
libraries.
.
William Overington
Friday 6 November 2020