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- From: bain1@vax.oxford.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Computer Concepts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.164121.10201@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 16:41:21 GMT
- References: <28130@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.112704.8970@gate.esat.kuleuven.ac.be> <1e887pINNfpe@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.160243.21369@cs.nott.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov16.160243.21369@cs.nott.ac.uk>, smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows) writes:
- > In article <1e887pINNfpe@oak22.doc.ic.ac.uk> ijp@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- >>
- >>The only thing that really annoys me about CC is their insistence on
- >>finding the worst possible protection method for their products (ie.
- >>dongles and crappy printer cables).
- >
- > I agree about the printer cable, but not about dongles. What other
- > technique do you suggest that they use to protect their investment?
- > Copy protection? Awful. Embedded name/number? Ineffective. Through
- > the use of dongles, they have probably sold 3? times as many copies
- > of Impression as they would have done otherwise, which is how they
- > have been able to continue improving it, as well as providing technical
- > support which most people seem to find acceptable.
- >
- > Simon
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Simon Burrows smb@cs.nott.ac.uk psyhsmb@unicorn.nott.ac.uk +44 533 712030
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- I agree wholeheartedly and without reservation. The printer cable is NOT a
- problem as CC provide a module which allows this cable to drive any printer
- using any driver.
- Mark
-