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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Copy protection allegedly
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 15:45:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 15:45:00 1985
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Nf-From: ima!johnl    Nov 14 15:45:00 1985


Old copies of MS Word and MS Project also have the threatening copy protection
message in them.  I suspect that if some copy protected program of Microsoft's
did indeed munch a disk, it was a mistake rather than deliberate, but the
whole thing does seem extremely dumb.

But remember, in a sense copy protection is the whole reason Microsoft
exists at all.  Bill Gates wrote the original Altair Basic which was widely
pirated before it was even done, because he gave away some tapes (paper tapes,
that is) of premilinary versions to people who had no compunctions about
copying software.  Apparently there were so many copies that Gates never could
make any money selling it, and he swore that would never happen again.  Thus
was Microsoft born.

John Levine, ima!johnl

The opinions above are solely those of a 12 year old hacker who has broken
into my account, and not those of my employer or any other organization.