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From: w-stephm@microsoft.UUCP (Stephan MUELLER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copy Protection
Message-ID: <54999@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 18:02:50 GMT
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In article <5002@zehntel.UUCP> you write:
%     A WARNING ABOUT BORLAND - I bought Where in the World is Carmen 
%                               San Diego. It has special disk copy 
%                               protection and is NOT CLEARLY MARKED
%                               AND IT REQUIRES THAT YOU LEAVE THE DISK
%                               WRITE ENABLED!!!!!

The Carmen San Diego series is distributed by Br0derbund, not Borland.

Borland makes MS-DOS Languages and Applications (Turbo C/Pascal, Quattro
etc.)  No Borland products are in any way disk copy-protected.

Br0derbund makes entertainment software for many personal
computers.  For a long time, all of their games have been
copy-protected, on every machine I've ever used.

I've found that a good way to determine whether something is or is
not copy-protected is to go by the manufacturer's past practice.

Borland and Br0derbund have both been very consistent in their
practices.  So have others.

%*    Don White                          *

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