chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach; Lord of the OtherRealms) (10/09/86)
Just about the time I was making my second set of comments on Copy Protection (see Fullpaint. and the followup) Microsoft was announcing (per messages on CompuServe that I saw) the removal of Copy Protection from all Macintosh products. First one to be available will be an Excel update, with Word and File updates down the pike (no, I dno't have dates of update procedures, although I hope to soon -- CompuServe crashed on me while I was reading...) All I can say is "Congratulations Microsoft!" Now, what about the rest of you? There is no justification for Copy Protection. Mutter, mutter, and all the normal hyperbole. (Just as a matter of record, I rebuilt my hard disk tonight for various reasons. Thanks to the Copy Protection on three programs (Word, File, and MacPublisher II) I lost well over an HOUR beyond the normal backup/format/restore process pulling out masters, making copies with Copy II Mac, and installing (and defeating) the various protections. Remember, I paid EXTRA for the priviledge of doing this, since I (1) paid for the copy protection when I bought the program, and (2) paid for Copy II Mac to defeat it. Makes a lot of sense, no? Anyway, I'm sure my comments were coincidental to the announcement and had nothing to do with the change in Microsoft's policy, but I do hope people get serious and refuse to buy non-copy protected programs. And make those manufacturers aware of that fact. Copy Protection DOES NOT WORK and only hurts the legitimate owners of the software. chuq
tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton) (10/10/86)
> Microsoft was announcing (per messages on Compuserve that I saw) the > removal of Copy Protection from all Macintosh products. Any idea when they'll be removing the copy perversion from Flight Simulator, and how one can tell the non-CP version from the CP version? I'd buy a copy if they removed the silly CP and the bogus "licensing agreement" (which they hide inside the package so as not to scare off buyers -- but I saw there was one because a local chain bookstore had a copy of Flight Simulator open as a demonstrator). (The "agreement" was apparently specific to Flight Simulator, but contained various fun phrases like 'you have a right to make a backup if the program isn't copy-protected' (and pigs could fly if they had wings...)) > All I can say is "Congratulations Microsoft!" I agree. I hope they drive Lotus completely into the ground. Apparently in the IBM-PC world, Lotus is one of the big holdouts for CP. And for the Mac, the expensive and CP Jazz doesn't look so hot when you consider what Excel + {Word, MacWrite} + {MacTerminal, Red Ryder, VersaTerm} + Switcher can do. -- Thomas Newton
holmes@dalcs.UUCP (Ray Holmes) (10/13/86)
In article <8034@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach; Lord of the OtherRealms) writes: [ ... ] > >Anyway, I'm sure my comments were coincidental to the announcement and had >nothing to do with the change in Microsoft's policy, but I do hope people >get serious and refuse to buy non-copy protected programs. And make those ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >manufacturers aware of that fact. Copy Protection DOES NOT WORK and only >hurts the legitimate owners of the software. > >chuq I'm sure you didn't mean this!!! Ray