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From: smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: copy protection
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 08:00:53 EST
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> >What happens if the customer's Mac goes down and he has to get a loaner
> >for a while? ....
> 
> A dealer could provide a loaner with frozen copies of all the software

That is illegal.  You can not give people copies of licensed software unless
you pay for a very liberal license.  The user is licensed and not the machine.
I can see it now on the NY Times:  "Lotus sues machine for violating license
agreement."  We could create machines that would only run one program.  That
would really solve the problem.  The software would be in rom. [:{)>