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From: rms@meccts.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Another view on software protection
Message-ID: <223@meccts.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 21:49:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: meccts.223
Posted: Sun Sep  8 21:49:21 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 05:32:52 EDT
References: <890@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <199@ittral.UUCP> <913@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <1080@mtgzz.UUCP> <1471@hammer.UUCP>
Reply-To: rms@meccts.UUCP (Roger M. Shimada)
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St.Paul, MN
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Summary: 

In article <1471@hammer.UUCP> steveh@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hemminger) writes:
>What about educational software.  My sister runs a computer education
>program for inner city kids, and they have the typical group of apple ii's.
>All the educational progs seem to be copy protected, WHICH IS TOTALLY
>BRAINDAMAGED.  My advice was to make one copy of each program (using one of
>the cracker programs), and lock up the original.  NEVER let the kid's run on
>the original.  Unless a solution is developed, we are raising kids as
>software pirates because the teachers have to be pirates.

After seeing what happens to non-copy protected software in schools, I
must disagree.  It was very typical for teachers to ask students to
make copies of diskettes.  I remember some kids making copies of
particular programs, taking the cream of the crop from various
diskettes.  (I should know, I was one of them!)  That was a few years
ago - imagine it today when some of these kids actually have machines
at home!  Teachers were able to get together and pirate software....

One solution to the problem itself is a licensing agreement.  This can
apply to schools as well as businesses.  The heavy users of MECC
software are "Institutional Members" who can make any number of
(copy-protected) copies of a diskette.

	 			Roger Shimada
				Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation
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