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In article <FRANCIS.91Jun22234440@daisy.uchicago.edu>, francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
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>So how come he's coming out with a version checking shareware as well?
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	If he was really concerned about piracy he'd release it as public
domain.  I gotta agree with the previous points...it will make keeping 
software that is not on his list difficult to keep on your machine, it will
need to be updated constantly (more money in Mr. Mora's pocket), it will 
probably be misused (I loved the Fred story, matter of fact I know Fred!), it
will cost money that could be spent to pay for more programs. 

	In a similar vein, have any of you seen the ad for Software Security
that's been running in MacWorld?  It features "Softy the Porcupine" telling 
you "Only you can prevent software piracy".  The whole thing looks a lot like
the Smokey the Bear ads I used to see.  Software Security will help you 
prevent software piracy but they could care less about copying old Smokey's 
act!  Even if they got a license to do it I think that they should have been 
more creative.  It looks to me like they pirated Smokey the Bear.  I know it's
a stupid complaint but it bugged me.

Mario

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