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