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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SCO-ISC Serial Numbers
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.131450.25497@pegasus.com>
Date: 19 Jul 90 13:14:50 GMT
References: <3194@rsiatl.UUCP> <221@csinc.UUCP> <8107@scorn.sco.COM>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>The SCO serial number/activation key is designed to do just that - help
>find software copies. It sure doesn't prevent copying, but when
>someone does copy, they have to do it with the same serial number
>every time. This doesn't make much difference when someone makes
>one or two copies, but we have caught people who have set up a
>manufacturing line and sold many dozens or hundreds of illegal copies. 
>Their users call us up, register their software and we notice when more
>than one instance of a serial number shows up.
> 

Then why not just serialize the software before you ship it?

The only difference is that your customers will stop complaining about
having to do your work for you.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com