Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read) Keywords: Hard Disk Auditing for your Software Message-ID: <13111@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 24 Jun 91 13:39:14 GMT References: <25662@unix.SRI.COM> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Muriel Gray Fan Club (sole member) Lines: 28 In article <25662@unix.SRI.COM>, mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) writes: > Your company name as you want it to appear in the reports. > ie Apple Computer, Inc. So, the reports are true. Every Macintosh software company in the US is now an Apple subsidiary....! :-) > 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. No flames, but there are interesting points here. If a company steals software, why should it bother scanning its employees' disks? And, as an employee, would *you* work for a company which insisted on inspecting your Macintosh regularly to see what software you had on it? I don't think I would. Probably not subject material for comp.sys.mac.apps, but I find it interesting anyway. Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ <-- WEST VIEWING ROOM EAST VIEWING ROOM -->