Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!cornell!mlee From: mlee@awamore.cs.cornell.edu (mark lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: NeXT Software Distribution Message-ID: <32739@cornell.UUCP> Date: 2 Oct 89 16:03:17 GMT Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: mlee@cs.cornell.edu (mark lee) Distribution: comp Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 30 To: comp.sys.next cc: In an article in NeXTWeek (inside MacWeek 9/19/89), it was mentioned that NeXT users may be able to buy a software over the phone: > A demonstration version of the program (FrameMaker 2.0) > with the save feature disabled will be included > on Version 1.0 of the system software disk > from NeXT. Users can call Businessland or > Computer Craft to buy the program and get > documentation and a password to enable saving... My questions are: 1. If there is a password to enable saving, how will FrameMaker keep NeXT users from telling other users the password? 2. How does the new software distribution system proposed by Steve Jobs work? Will all the programs and data be encrypted so that a software key is necessary to decrypt them? If this is the case, how does NeXT plan on stopping people from giving other users the software key? Any information on these two questions would be greatly appreciated. Mark Lee, mlee@awamore.cs.cornell.edu