Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!clayj From: clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Copy Protection (was: Re: Software Development And Piracy) Message-ID: <139@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 27 Dec 88 22:43:29 GMT References: <107@microsoft.UUCP> <1171@etive.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay Jackson) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 20 In article <1171@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: >In article <107@microsoft.UUCP> clayj@microsoft.UUCP (Clay Jackson) writes: >>I just purchased a copy of Managing Your Money, ... >>... >This is, I think, what it's all about. How do you see a software >product? A disk and a manual? Or access to a software product with .... > Nick. I think Nick hit it on the head. I guess the next question is; where do you draw the line? What is a "supermarket commodity", and what is a software product? and, who pays for all of that support? What level of support is\ "acceptable" for what sort of product? I'm not sure I have all of the "right" answers, and I'm not sure that "right" here is even an absolute. Clay #include