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From: bill@sigma.UUCP (Bill Swan)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Your (preferred) software rights...
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 17:20:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 16 17:20:46 1986
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Reply-To: bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan)
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>[...]
>As we all anxiously wait for obnoxious software companies to go out of 
>business, all of us can help nudge software companies in the right direction.
>AVOID software with obnoxious "disclaimers", AVOID software without 
>provision for site licensing, AVOID software with copy protection.
>
>DO give business to companies that seem to be responsive to user needs,[...]
>Microsoft (Wordstar, Wordstar 2000) which dropped copy protection, etc.
      ^^^^
 MicroPro??

I would also avoid products by companies that do silly things like placing
messages that say "Now trashing your disk" in them (whether they really are
trashing it or not).
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill