Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!info-mac From: info-mac@utcsrgv.UUCP (info-mac) Newsgroups: ont.micro.mac Subject: Re: copy protection Message-ID: <4796@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 12:33:29 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4796 Posted: Fri Jul 6 12:33:29 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Jul-84 13:27:43 EDT Sender: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 26 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 84 10:57 PDT From: uw-beaver!Bosseler.ES@XEROX.ARPA Subject: Re: copy protection In-Reply-To: "Gloger's message of Wed, 4 Jul 84 02:03 PDT" To: Gloger.ES@XEROX.ARPA Cc: Peter Blicher , pourne@MIT-MC.ARPA, info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Paul I think you missed the main point. Not everyone would be QUALIFIED to receive the free software - just registered software developers who have paid a small fee to the "central organization" AND passed their entrance requirements (just like defense contractors). And of course the head of that gov't department would be an intelligent, "career" bureaucrat just like the ones managing public transportation, military procurement, and the IRS. The neat part about all this is that we would all get paid the same no matter what the worth as long as the software was acceptable by the bureaucrat. And the public would pay and pay whether they wanted the stuff or not - isn't that a novel idea? After all, who is better qualified to purchase and distribute software than the gov't? Tom