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Re: Making Piracy work in your Favor

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From: Tom Poage
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1989 17:53
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In article <2028@td2cad.intel.com> jmarek@td2cad.UUCP (John Marek) writes:
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>A key point is also to produce high quality documentation.  Don't distribute a
>draft-quality document with an expensive software package.  Also, if it's 
>reasonable, put color into your document to make it hard to reproduce.  Owners
>of pirated software will probably find they need complete documentation to 
>truly take advantage of a software package.

This may not be liked by the users, but if the documentation is
*bound* instead of looseleaf, copying the documents becomes
difficult.  I.e., 100 page/minute two-sided copy machines will
do you no good.  For that matter, the half-page (5-1/2 x 8-1/2
inch) material is difficult to copy too.  Tom.
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From: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
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Subject: Re: Making Piracy work in your Favor
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Date: 20 Jun 89 17:53:50 GMT
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