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From: GREYELF@WPI.BITNET
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Subject: piracy
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Date: 21 Apr 89 14:58:00 GMT
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>I personally don't think they should close the loophole. After all, each
>computer is not buying the program - the school is. It's not practical for
>the school to pay hundreds of dollars TIMES the number of computer they own.
>This fact is keeping the cost of tuition high and the number of computers low.
>If the school (or other institution) has that large of a software budget,
>I'd rather see them buy more different programs than pay repeatedly for one.

>(And yes, I know I'm going to get flak from those on the other side of the
>fence - mainly, the members of the software industry. I know that authors
>should be paid for their work, and I wholeheartedly agree, but I don't think
>any one consumer should pay for a program more than once.)

>Todd Davis
>Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>Disclaimer: They're my ideas, not UIUC's. We welcome replies to this
>editorial.

Most shareware companies license schools for a given product, in other
words, instead of buying 200 copies of a give program they get 30 copies,
information, and a site license to allow the program to be run on
any machine, like if they pay for 30 copies they're licensed to run it
simultaneously on up to 30 machines.

I believe WPI does this with pcwrite, minitab, lotus, etc.

Its much more reasonable than buying 200 copies.

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Yes, I know Lotus is not shareware.