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From: philip@goofy.Berkeley.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW, etc. on CD-ROM: encrypt 'em
Message-ID: <1990May7.170954.2230@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 May 90 17:09:54 GMT
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In article <1313@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU>, des7f@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (David
Sappington) writes:
> 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:
Better idea: include everything on the CD ROM at a reasonably low price, and
charge extra for the manuals.

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu