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From: gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Any piracy statistics in the US ??
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Date: 25 Jun 91 01:10:32 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.205146.3372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> chappell@math.uiuc.edu (Glenn Chappell) writes:

>A typical (micro) software license is single user/single machine.

Right. However, it's not typical to have to call up the vendor and beg
and plead to have them transfer your license to a different CPU
because the repair guy just came by and replaced the motherboard.
Fortunately, most "PC's" don't have a serial number. And fortunately,
copy protection for business software seems to be either totally dead
or very rare, except for niche products.