Message-ID: <12677@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 04:59:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 24 04:59:31 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 30-Apr-84 05:27:10 EDT
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From:  Joe Ruvolo 




Bravo, Mr. Smith.  I have been watching the nets just become flooded with
replies, comments, approvals, disaprovals and the like.  It is about time
that we came up NOT with better ideas for protection, but with a new idea!

Why don't we all back our thought patterns up a step or two by realizing
that software protection schemes just don't work!  If someone out there
is good enough to write a clever scheme, then there is ALSO someone out
there that is clever enough to break that scheme.  Why not (???) support
something along the lines of what Russ suggested instead of letting our
inflated programming egos get in the way (e.g. I can write a protection
scheme that NOBODY can break!  (and if somebody does, well, I'll write
a better one!)

It's time we stopped talking about the fact (???) of whether it is wrong
or right to pirate software.  It is against the law and that is that!
Let's talk on the thought of making software so that the pirates won't
want to just copy it!

 . . . just trying to get a word in edge-wise!

jpr%cwru20@cucs20.arpa

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