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In article <1992Aug1.023559.7676@physics.ucla.edu>  
price@uclapp.physics.ucla.edu (John Price) writes:
> The only way to prevent this kind of theft would 
> be for a company to aggresively protect its software investment at all 
> times.  Methinks such a plan would cause industry to severely restrict who 
> can access their computers, and what kind of access they have.  This would 
> in turn result (IMHO) in slowing down the the acceptance of computers in 
> business.  
> 

That is a major part of the copying equation. The SDA may claim that its raids  
will result in increased sales, but we'll see! Maybe half of existing computers  
would never have been purchased (who knows?) if the buyer didn't have access to  
at least some "free" software. If software copying were prevented tomorrow, it  
would be interesting to see what would happen to the personel computer and  
software industries.

It is not clear to me how much of the software industry is really interested in  
taking measures to limit copying. How many companies are actually active in the  
SDA? 

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