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From: mojo@well.UUCP (Mojo Jones)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: software protection - dongles
Message-ID: <114@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 04:03:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.114
Posted: Tue Jul 30 04:03:43 1985
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References: <566@alberta.UUCP> <10800012@uiucdcsp> <138@gwsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: mojo@well.UUCP (Mojo Jones)
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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In article <138@gwsd.UUCP> revc@gwsd.UUCP (Bob Van Cleef) writes:
>Another company without copy protection is MicroPro.  They had
>a copy protection scheme on WordStar 2000 and removed it because
>of customer demand.  
>
>Does anyone know what impact that policy change had on:
>	Their corporate image.
>	Their sales.
>	Their profitability.
>

I'm not in a very good position to judge the impact, but I think removing
the copy protection was the best thing we could have done.  Nothing can undo
all of the damage done by releasing it copy protected to begin with.  But
later reviews of ws2000 are significantly better than earlier ones.

On the other hand, our sales and profitability are a matter of public record.
Our last quarter, ended May 31, was our first profitable quarter of the past
four.  Revenues were slightly higher than the previous quarter, and lower
than the same quarter from the previous year.

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Mojo
...is Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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