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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Novel Software Distribution IdeasREAD/NEW/FOLLOWUP
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Date: 8 Feb 91 06:03:02 GMT
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In article <1991Feb5.104356.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu writes:
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>	So I second your metered approach and would like to see it in the
>	context of a license manager built into the NeXT OS.

If we are at it, I have to say NO to these approaches. I plan to sell
software for the NeXT eventually as well as many others, but not that way.
In general I'm opposed to copy-protection. If the program is worth
it's money people will pay any reasonable price. If you belong to the
category of people that ask 40000$ for some libraries that were
developed in just a couple of months (as it happens in this market)
then I'd say copyright laws should be abolished altogether. Such high
prices are an abuse of law that wants to ensure healthy profits but
not robbery.
An applaus to companies like Lighthouse and Pencom that realize that a
reasonable price will do it perfectly.

Ronald
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