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Article #869Re: Nitro
From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:57
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:57
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In article <1992Oct11.222218.2835@parsec.mixcom.com> alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes: >IMHO, I don't think that this will be a trend. >Specially since: > >A) All NeXT brand computers, already have unique numbers. >B) All future non-NeXT brand computers running NeXTSTEP probably won't have > ADB............... NOR built-in unique numbers on the hardware. > >As it has happened on other platforms, upgrades, and other advancements make >copy protection schemes break. Exactly! And, borrowing from the minicomputer world, they'll be able to charge different license fees based on your "CPU class." -=EPS=- -- It could be worse. You could be leasing software.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!chx400!ira.uka.de!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!news From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: Nitro Message-ID: <1992Oct14.075758.12366@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <1992Oct4.190419.19772@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> <1anj1tINNkjg@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Oct5.060105.20925@csus.edu> <1992Oct11.222218.2835@parsec.mixcom.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:57:58 GMT Lines: 18