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From: owen@eedsp.gatech.edu (Owen Adair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What's coming?
Message-ID: <288@eedsp.gatech.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 89 10:41:28 GMT
References: <65100001@tippy> <116900003@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: owen@gt-eedsp.UUCP (Owen Adair)
Organization: DSP Lab, School of Electrical Engineering, Ga. Tech, Atlanta, GA  30332
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In article <116900003@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>All that the box of software really needs is an instruction manual and
>a cryptographic key, written on a slip of paper.  The vendor can make
>the software available on a BBS, to customers who have correct
>software keys, enabling them to download the software.  There are so

What happens when you try to distribute a very successful package that
sells many thousand copies? I can just see the 30 or 40 thousand people 
that got TurboC upgrades when 2.0 came out try and download it at the
same time.

Don't get me wrong, electronic software distribution perhaps has a place,
but to try and use it for primary software distribution to a large audience
would be suicide.

-owen




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Owen Adair, WD4FSU                                            
Digital Signal Processing Lab, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332    
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