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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)
Keywords: Hard Disk Auditing for your Software
Message-ID: <25662@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 91 23:57:32 GMT
Reply-To: mxmora@sri-unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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I have a program that is ready for release that will scan hard disks
for commercial software. (one to include shareware is already in the works)
This program is going to be used by companies to make sure that they have
legally purchased all software that their employees are using (or they are
making them use). 

The program is called "SPAudit for the Macintosh" and it will be free
from the Software Publishers Association (SPA).

I have received from Apple Computer the signature registry database containing
all the signatures that have be registered with Apple as of last year.

Out of the over 3000 signatures in the database we have chopped it down to
to about 950 products. This is probably too many but we had to start somewhere.

I would like to know for sure that we have your products in the our database.
If you want to make sure that SPAudit will find your software, please let me
know the following information. 

Your company name as you want it to appear in the reports.

ie  Apple Computer, Inc.

The signature and software products name as released by you for each
of your software products. 

ie "SURF"  SurfWriter(tm)

The program currently will scan for Applications,Inits,Cdevs,Postscript fonts
and hypercard stacks. 

If you would like to try the program first to see if it will find your
software or you want to make sure the data is accurate, let me know
and I will send you a beta copy of the program.


Thanks for listening.


Matthew Xavier Mora
Developer of SPAudit For The Macintosh

P.S. Please no flames about how you hate this program already. If
people (or companies) didn't steal software there wouldn't be a need for
this program.




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