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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why Can't Microsoft Write Protect Their Distribution Disks?
Message-ID: <22961@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 27 May 88 18:09:19 GMT
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Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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In article <992@hsi.UUCP> tankus@hsi.UUCP (Ed Tankus) writes:
|Now if you can't spend the two minutes it takes to protect your OWN butt by
|putting disk tabs on YOUR software that are FREE, then you get what you deserve.

I have two comments to this.  First, is there a software license on
your product?  If so, it probably says something along the lines of
"Permission has been granted by [insert company name here] for the use
of [program or package name here] on one computer.  [insert company
name here] retains ownership of this program."  If so, it's not really
the user's software is it?  You're protecting your own software.
(This is really just a technicality, but it does pop up with virtually
every software package I've seen.)

Second, if you truly believe that "you get what you deserve", I'm glad
you're not working for my company.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu