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From: des7f@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (David Sappington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MPW, etc. on CD-ROM: encrypt 'em
Message-ID: <1313@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 6 May 90 05:07:04 GMT
Organization: U.Va. CS Department, Charlottesville, VA
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[discussion about APDA shipping MPW tools, compilers, etc. on CD-ROM]
[  more discussion about developers begin forced to buy unwanted    ]
[  products just to get the CD-ROM.                                 ]

Perhaps APDA should follow the lead of some commerical outfits that ship
(say) Postscript fonts on CD-ROM.  In other words pack MPW, all languages
and related products, and anything else that they can think of (and fits)
on a CD-ROM.  The catch?  Encrpyt everything! (Well maybe not ResEdit and
stuff like that.)  I'm not sure how they should handle decription/payment
but two approaches might be:

1)  Ship a floppy with the CD-ROM that contains the decoding program(s)
    for whatever the developer bought.

2)  Ship the decoder on the CD-ROM but charge for the cypher keys.  APDA
    could include the appropriate keys on paper when they ship the CD-ROM
	or perhaps give them out over the phone for credit card orders.

How about it APDA?  Maybe someone should throw this to Apple's lawyers
and see what they think -- let them do something useful for once :-).

Dave Sappington                     des7f@virginia.edu
Institute for Parallel Computation  des7f@virginia.bitnet
University of Virginia