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March 1999, Week 4

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Re: HP crackdown on resellers
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Tom <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:57:57 GMT
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About 6 years ago, I was attending an Advance System Manager class at
HP. One of the attendees was from HP. He said they were considering the
following tactic against 3rd party support companies:

(1) HP Software can only be run by Authorized Personnel.

(2) When any program is run (including MPE during logon), a copy of the
disk image is created in memory.

(3) This constitutes Copyright Infringement because the 3rd party person
"caused" an illegal copy to be produced in memory.

They must have decided not to try it - this was 6 years ago.

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