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- From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: how to put indelible serial# in resource fork of app?
- Message-ID: <62725@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 12:35:00 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Ken Wieschhoff <kenw@ssd.kodak.com> writes:
-
- >What rules? Buy yer own goddamned copy! If you're following the thread,
- >there's concern about placing a serial number into the resource fork of the
- >fuckin' file. You don't want to do that if you're on a network volume do
- >you?
-
- Thank you for your well reasoned response to Jon's comment.
-
- As I recall, your original posting stated that your software would refuse to
- launch from a remote volume since it checks whether or not it's on a local
- one.
-
- I regularly put tools on a server where I can access them remotely as I
- wander around the office carrying a floppy with an alias to the server. If I
- encountered software that told me that it would not launch from a server,
- even if I was the only launcher of said app and therefore well within my
- rights as a single-user licensee, I would take a dim view of this indeed.
-
- I will make sure we know to test this the next time we review certain kinds
- of software. I can think of a number of instances where I'd want single-user
- server access to some of the DTP tools we use around here. Not farfetched at
- all.
-
- As always, my opinions, not my employer's.
-
- _________________________________________________________________________
- Stephan Somogyi parking vulture MacUser
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