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:
>
>>Many demo programs do this. They do  it because they want you to pay for
>>the software,
>
>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.
>
>  Eric
>
>
Brent Harding