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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it
Summary: Trial period.
Keywords: returning software you're unhappy with
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Date: 15 Feb 90 16:44:28 GMT
References: <48a44d7c.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <10760@saturn.ucsc.edu>
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In article <10760@saturn.ucsc.edu> daniel@saturn.ucsc.edu (Daniel Edelson) writes:
> Limiting software to a particular period of time or number of
> executions appears difficult, especially on PCs, but even on
> workstations.

A particular number of executions, I can believe. But a particular period
of time is no big deal. Everything you send through the mail or buy in a
store is timestamped (either via the cancellation or on your receipt), so
allowing people a 30 or so day trial period seems fairly easy. Other goods
are sold that way.
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