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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite and a dealer
Message-ID: <5218@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 88 19:34:47 GMT
References: <8806182222.AA23513@decwrl.dec.com> <8949@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: chow@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <8949@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) writes:
|In article <8806182222.AA23513@decwrl.dec.com| long@rainbo.dec.com (Now HE will ask the questions!) writes:
|
||	- 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.
|

Well, actually it dosen't have to modify the distribution disk.  If you just
copy the program onto a hard disk from a distribution disk you can then run
the hard disk copy.  Of course, it'll ask you to enter the serial number,
etc., but then you're only modifying the hard disk copy, not the
distribution copy.  After you demo it you can then delete the hard disk copy
and everything will be fine.

If the dealer dosen't let you do this then you should take your business
elsewhere.

Christopher Chow
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