Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!edt From: edt@microsoft.UUCP (Edward Tharp) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Copy protection for MS Windows applications Message-ID: <57853@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 90 17:10:53 GMT References: <24605@sequoia.execu.com> Reply-To: edt@microsoft.UUCP (Edward Tharp) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 27 In article medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) writes: |cb@sequoia.execu.com (Christopher D. Brown) writes: | |>I hate copy protection but we must still use it in select |>markets. The vendor that supplies our MS DOS copy protection |>and LAN user count control does not (yet?) do Windows. Are |>the any vendors addressing copy/LAN protection for MS Windows? |>"Yes"s (if any) will be summarized. | |What markets would they be? Except for games, I can't understand why |any one market would be more succesptible to pirating than others. If |your products offer a good value, are well supported, and backed by an |update policy that rewards registered users (instead of alienating |them), pirating should be no greater an issue for you than anyone |else. In some countries, pirating is as accepted there as copying audio cassettes is here, not only on the individual level, but also the coporate one. Copy protection is a necessary evil in some cases, until copyright laws abroad protects people's investments. Ed Tharp -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Edward Tharp Microsoft Corporation #include | | ..!{uunet,uw-beaver}!microsoft!edt or microsof!edt@beaver.cs.washington.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+