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From: mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Monogram Software
Message-ID: <152@gilbbs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 16:49:30 EST
Article-I.D.: gilbbs.152
Posted: Tue Apr  8 16:49:30 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Apr-86 08:43:34 EST
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In article <761@ihlpm.UUCP>, lyourk@ihlpm.UUCP (Loran N. Yourk) writes:
> 
>   Anybody know anything about Monogram Software Company going
>   out of business.  My sister has tried to get in touch with
>   them for a month and all she gets is an answering machine
>   saying there are not open (even after repeated calls on the
>   same day).  She wants is to get a replacement boot disk
>   which they will not sell her unless she buys the entire
>   Dollars and $ensc package again.  Her dealer also tried to
>   get in touch with them to no avail (the dealer is saying
>   Monogram is going out of business).  Being they (the
>   dealer) could not get in touch with Monogram they will not
>   help her with her problem.

   This is just one of any number of reasons ***NEVER*** to purchase copy
protected software.  Copy protection schemes are simply punishing the majority
of honest users for the alleged misdeeds of the minority.

   Because *NO* company can guarantee that they will still be in business
next year (not in this industry), purchasing copy protected software not only
gives the marketing/legal types (read: slime-buckets of the century) a boost,
but it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. 

   I oppose copy protection of distributed software.  Totally.  I have heard
all the whining that folks like Ashton-Tate offer in lieu of arguments for
copy protection, and they are unmitigated bovine fecal waste.

   Unless your sistem is lucky enough to locate someone who knows how to break
the copy protection scheme used by the vendor of Dollars and $ense, she is out
of luck.  Maybe next time you should advise her to avoid copy protected
products.

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