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From: wrbull@aluxe.UUCP (bullman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: what's wrong with this protection?
Message-ID: <785@aluxe.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 20:26:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: aluxe.785
Posted: Sun Jul 28 20:26:32 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 00:51:20 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA
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I think that instead of wasting their(software companies) money on some
doo-dad the family Rover will inevitably chew up, they should have put their
money into developing a small (2 inch maybe) removable optical disc(YES a CD
ROM!) Transfer rates at winnie rates, cheap(look at your local record store),
not reproducible(at least not yet!) and relatively immune to environmental
factors(dogs excluded!). This is so-o-o-o-o obvious that there must be 
something against really bad about it. High price maybe?! Well, CD players
are cheap and getting cheaper. You can buy discontinued models for <$200.
Sell a CD player for micros for that price and sell the software at some 
reasonable price(they now have no excuse about 10 pirated copies to justify
jacking up the price - we're talking 1-2-3 at $50 range - visions of TURBO 
Pascal). It soon makes good economic sense to buy one of those 
expensive($200!) peripherals.

Maybe the doo-dad or dongle(!?) is just another horse designed by a 
committee.

			William R. Bullman
			AT&T Bell Laboratories
			Allentown, PA USA

			...!aluxe!wrbull

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