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Article #1799Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
From: Roy Smith
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1988 17:31
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1988 17:31
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Various People have been complaining that a $50 "optical floppy" is
far too expensive to use for software distribution. Why not do a turn on
the usual "you've bought the disk but only licenced the software" routine?
When you buy a program you get a copy of the manuals to keep and a
distribution disk, on which you put a $50 deposit. You copy the software
onto your own local disk and send back the distribution disk to get your
$50 back.
Of course, the bookkeeping involved might well be prohibitive. You
also have to worry about the possibility of the user somehow destroying or
changing the bits on the disk.
--
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.os.misc,comp.misc,comp.arch Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long) Summary: Deposit on distributino media? Message-ID: <3542@phri.UUCP> Date: 16 Oct 88 17:31:33 GMT References: <360@elan.UUCP> <2070@cloud9.UUCP> <528@fabscal.UUCP> <1152@mmm.UUCP> <5826@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 17