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From: shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Copy Protection Schemes
Message-ID: <346@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 23 Jun 89 20:45:56 GMT
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In article <10442@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes...
> 
>Note that such protection schemes preclude installation of software
>on hard disks, making backups, etc.  There are major software vendors
>who have found other less obnoxious forms of copy protection, and if
>you care about customer satisfaction you should consider those instead.

With the availability of less expensive hard disks, the increasing size 
of //gs programs and the availability of faster machines either through
accelerators or the hoped for //gs+,  the issue of not being able put 
these programs on our hard disks should become a greater issue.  I'd 
really like to see the Apple // community start to become vocal about 
this.

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