Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!voder!pyramid!unify!dgh From: dgh@unify.uucp (David Harrington) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: open this package and you're stuck with it Keywords: returning software you're unhappy with Message-ID: <4od8jdu@unify.uucp> Date: 23 Feb 90 20:39:39 GMT References: <48a44d7c.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <10760@saturn.ucsc.edu> <9427@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Reply-To: dgh@unify.UUCP (David Harrington) Distribution: usa Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA Lines: 23 In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <9427@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> wg@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Bill Gieske) writes: >> In article , peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >> What prevents me from turning my clock back to withing the 30-day window of >> use anytime I want to use the software, thus "extending" my use indefinitely. > >Nothing, presuming you're a pirate anyway. But if that's the case you'd >probably have gotten a cracked copy from your buddy down the hall anyway, >and never taken the risk of letting a software publisher get your name. > Agreed, Peter, but hopefully his system will have a chron daemon on it that will punish him SERIOUSLY for dinking with the system date, and making chron crazy. -- David Harrington internet: dgh@unify.UUCP Unify Corporation ...!{csusac,pyramid}!unify!dgh 3870 Rosin Court voice: (916) 920-9092 Sacramento, CA 95834 fax: (916) 921-5340