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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Morality of Self-Destructing HyperCard Stack
Summary: Why bother?
Keywords: HyperCard
Message-ID: <1155@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 90 03:56:24 GMT
References: <4286@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.digest,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <4286@helios.TAMU.EDU>, t1f4387@helios.TAMU.EDU (Mike Farlow) writes:
> 
> Since we want to be the central distribution site for this stack, we
> want deliver full working version only to sites who license with the
> Trustees of Texas A&M (we hope this license to be free, i.e. John
> Norstad's Disinfectant).  The primary reason being for us to offer
> support, all copies of the stack must be consistent (less site-specific
> information).  As a result, the DEMO would automatically cripple itself
> after a preset amount of time.
> 
> Michael Farlow,                    X098MF@TAMVM1.BITNET

I know that this is not what you want to here but I would like to know why
you would even bother to post a self destructing copy. Why not just announce
the product and terms for distribution? You compare your idea with Disinfectant
but Mr. Norstad doesn't clutter up the BBS's and netfeeds with a program that
isn't going to work. 


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*   bob church  bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu                       *
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*  If economics isn't an "exact" science why do computers crash    *
*  so much more often than the stock market?                       *
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