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Article #5671Re: IBM Graphics Development Toolkit (actually docs)
From: Bennett Broder
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1986 18:36
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1986 18:36
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In article <911@dataioDataio.UUCP>, bright@dataioDataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
> I also hate documentation that is bound in such a way that no pages
> can be added. What do vendors expect you to do with the errata
> sheets (Turbo Pascal is an offender here)? Answer: lose them.
Don't be so quick to jump on Borland's case. It is one of the least
offensive "protection" schemes I have encountered. The idea is, make
the documentation very hard to copy, price the software cheap enough
that nobody will go through the hassle of copying it, and of course,
provide no documentation on the disk itself.
Would you rather have a 3 ring binder and a copy-protected diskette?
--
Ben Broder
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