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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!): No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.194615.24025@cs.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <3avo02fi1c4V01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:46:15 GMT
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- In article <3avo02fi1c4V01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent
- L. Shephard) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul30.205006.11190@cs.yale.edu>
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
- > >In article <1992Jul30.005304.7212@Trirex.COM> mmelling@Trirex.com(Michael
- > >Mellinger) writes:
- > >
- > >3. Copy protected the software so people couldn't steal it, which
- > >I have seen done (with WP as well).
- >
- > Copy protection sucks. If it is like the stuff on MMa I wouldn't buy
- > the product. On the other hand if it justs sticks my machine name and
- > my name on a panel showing the registered user I wouldn't mind.
-
- The contortions one has to go through to register MMa,
- especially multiple copies, are not representative of
- a good copy protection scheme which protects the program
- but doesn't hassle the user. We have other apps that are
- copy protected that weren't nearly the hassle to register
- and use, but still can't be stolen by someone copying
- them - they just work in demo mode without a valid keyfile.
-
- But let's not start the whole copy protection war again...
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
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