Quote Originally Posted by valkry View Post
Yet we pay labour costs for people to build/install software and/or other random stuff around the house that comes from another company all the time.
Software distribution (selling, renting, ...) is most often covered in a different manner in the license than offering services (installing, troubleshouting, maintenance, ...). That being said, I've seen a good amount of proprietary software that limits the service providing to partners only. But then again, software licensing is quite obscure anyways. In this case I just outlined what I though would be legal/illegal, not so much my 'ideals' . The reality is that it's pretty harmless to burn the patch on a disc and send it to the OP, if I was an aussie I'd be happy to help him out.