Ed Jaffe wrote: >We once had a situation in which a foreign distributor had numerous "off-book" >customers using our software illegally. It's not clear whether the customers >actually realized they were pirating the software. In any case, the >implementation of so-called "keys" put a stop to all subsequent attempts at >deliberate or accidental misuse (as far as we know, of course)...
As you note, "as far as we know". If the distributor was that dishonest, I assume this meant that the US folks had to handle all keys? I bet that was fun...lots of off-hours calls! Yeah, the only argument I've ever heard that had any teeth was related to them untrustworthy furriners. Though I suspect it's less that foreign companies are less trustworthy than that American companies are more afraid of litigation... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
