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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
Summary: Deposit on distributino media?
Message-ID: <3542@phri.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 17:31:33 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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	Various People have been complaining that a $50 "optical floppy" is
far too expensive to use for software distribution.  Why not do a turn on
the usual "you've bought the disk but only licenced the software" routine?
When you buy a program you get a copy of the manuals to keep and a
distribution disk, on which you put a $50 deposit.  You copy the software
onto your own local disk and send back the distribution disk to get your
$50 back.

	Of course, the bookkeeping involved might well be prohibitive.  You
also have to worry about the possibility of the user somehow destroying or
changing the bits on the disk.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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"The connector is the network"