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- From: eengelke@sail.uwaterloo.ca (Erick Engelke)
- Subject: Re: PC/TCP 2.1 copy protection
- Message-ID: <BuL40q.96B@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:10:01 GMT
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- On the discussion of FTP's copy protection:
-
- I really hate any form of protection which can possibly interfere
- with the reasonable operation of the network. But FTP deserves
- some respect for choosing such a benign protection scheme.
-
- The original poster indicated a ten node network and so site
- licensing was not a possibility. You may wish to re-consider,
- FTP's pricing makes the break even point somewhere around that
- point. That means it becomes cheaper to purchase a 20 node
- site license than fewer individual licenses. And with the site
- license you are free from the copy protection (as far as I recall).
-
- Though none of us want to see copy protection and the pains it
- creates, I would prefer to see implementations like FTP's over
- keyed disks, keyed ROMs, etc. And the use of warning messages
- over bombouts.
-
- Erick
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- Erick Engelke Engineering Computing
- University of Waterloo
- Waterloo TCP Architect erick@development.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
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