Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!rainbo.dec.com!long
From: long@rainbo.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: FullWrite and a dealer
Message-ID: <8806182222.AA23513@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 19 Jun 88 01:26:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Well, this one is interesting.  Just to see what all the hubbub was about
FullWrite, I went to a dealer this afternoon to try to 
get a demo of the program and to peruse the manuals.  After some moaning
and groaning on their part, they finally opened a shrink wrapped package
and let me look at the manuals.  However, they would NOT put the software
on their in-store Mac so that I could try it out.  Their reasoning was as
follows:

	- The FullWrite installation apparently modifies the DISTRIBUTION
disk to write your name, company, and program serial number.  If true, this 
is bogus!  What if you want to sell the software to someone else?  In any
event, it would seem that all one would have to do is to copy the distribution
disks, and install from those copies.  Unless of course, the distribution
disks are copy-protected, which would be doubly bogus.

I tend to suspect that the dealer was just being difficult and ignorant.  So, I
never did get to play with the program.  This, from a dealer that advertises
that any software can be opened up and tried out.  Ha!  They claimed A-T had
not shipped them a demo version.  So what?  If they had installed the version I
was shown, all they would have lost is one copy (potentially, and not even that
if they did it right). 

So, can anyone comment on the Fullwrite installation?  Was what I was told
correct, or not?

(Some) Computer dealers.  arrggh!!!  Long live MacConnection!!!

Rich

p.s.  Their general attitude was also uncooperative and arrogant.  They
need not fear getting any of my business ever again.