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From: jrodrig@EDN-VAX.ARPA (Jose Rodriguez)
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Subject: copy protection
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 22:00:20 EDT
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Yestarday I read two tidbits of info in Infoworld  to add to the copy
protection discussion:

1) In California, a new law has been proposed that will require software
manufacturers to guarantee some minimum level of behaviour from commercial
software. This basically declares null (in my understanding) clauses of
many (if not most) shrink wrap agreements.

2) Several companies (including Adam Osborne's Paperback Software) are
coming with cheap clones of Lotus 123. Site license is part of all the
clones. I bet Mitch Kapor is trying to figure out how to sue this people
out of business.

Let the good flames roll,

Jose
jrodrig@edn-vax