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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Copy protection and the consumer
Message-ID: <751@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 88 08:43:36 GMT
References: <4663@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <3823@husc6.harvard.edu> <1319@looking.UUCP> <1108@hyper.UUCP> <871@cos.COM>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <871@cos.COM> smith@cos.UUCP (Steve Smith) writes:
<In article <1108@hyper.UUCP> harley@hyper.UUCP (Harley Grantham) writes:
<Simple test.  Go to a PC in use in a business setting.  Call up Lotus
<1-2-3 (this is to make sure it's there).  Ask the owner/normal user of
<the PC for the manual.  I have done this at a number of companies, and I
<have *never* gotten a real Lotus manual.  I *assume* Lotus prints one.
<Reactions?

<"The VP keeps them all under lock and key" (strange enough to maybe be true)

I'm *half* the micro support staff for a company with a large number of PC's. 
We've followed the "the manual is locked up" policy. why? Because at the time
I started (two years ago) we had *three* DOS manuals to go with the *twenty*
original disks for that dos version. Seems the rest had wandered home along
with copies of the software (I'm assuming that they stole a copy of the
software too).

A similar story holds true for wordstar, dBase and Lotus. 

We're now distributing the $20-30 "manuals" that you can buy at B. Daltons.
We are also starting a limited program of making the user responisible
for the manual. If it disappears, he has to explain to his manager why he
needs to buy a new copy of Lotus... :-)

<-- 
< -- Steve           (smith@cos.com)           (uunet!cos!smith)
<"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."


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