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I also think that can be true also, because I downloaded some bata program
and it said it would expire on a certain date, and internet phone times you
out after a minute of talking to someone, and when you reload the program
it's difficult to find the person you were talking with.At 09:20 AM 11/21/96
+0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:48:41 -0600 Brent Harding
><[log in to unmask]> said:
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>>Many demo programs do this. They do it because they want you to pay for
>>the software,
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>Yes, but this is not the case here. We just want people to be running the
>final version, not the beta version. We don't want reviews in magazines
>to be based on obsolete kits that people copied to FTP servers, etc. We
>are still getting complaints about 1994 kits for Classic that people are
>somehow still downloading from FTP servers that installed a copy and then
>never updated it! So, we'll make the perpetual license keys require the
>build date of the release version. In general it is common for beta
>software to expire and require you to download the real thing - Netscape
>comes to mind.
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> Eric
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Brent Harding
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