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From: cfh@cca.UUCP (Christopher Herot)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Reply to:Re:  Call for Osborne Executive owners
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Date: Mon, 28-Nov-83 19:00:33 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 28 19:00:33 1983
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Recent press coverage has speculated that the entire software
protection mechanism for micros is built on a rather unstable
foundation.  I haven't heard yet of anyone being taken to court
yet for swapping micro software.  It is entirely possible that
a judge or jury could decide that the fine print on the back of
the floppy package no more of a contract than the fine print on
the back of a box of cereal.  As a software vendor, would you 
want to try to explain to a jury why the law should have more
to say about what you can do with your floppy disk than what
kind of bread you can put in your toaster.