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From: tr@thumper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Questions on software for micro labs
Message-ID: <538@thumper.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 09:12:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 28 09:12:56 1987
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Keywords: Cheap, easy, legal, foolproof, are we dreaming?
Summary: I don't think you need to go through all that trouble.

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Larry Wake, of CSUN Computer Center in Northridge, CA asks how to
distribute copies of DOS legally.

It seems to me that if the school buys a copy of DOS for each machine
it will be used on, it has fulfilled its obligation.  Why worry about
making sure that the proper copy goes to its corresponding machine?
Microsoft and IBM will get their proper royalties.  I would not worry
if students take out illegal copies of DOS.  The ones used on your
machines are legitimate.  You are only watching over the use of a
finite number of machines and their copies of DOS are legit.  At this
point, you could make a thousand copies of DOS, leave a pile at the
inside of the door of the lab so each user of a machine can use DOS.
You have already paid for the maximum number of copies that will be
used simultaneously.

-- 
Tom Reingold
Internet: tr@bellcore.com
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