"It took me two years to finally convince everyone at Novell that sales would go up and support calls go down if we removed all software copy protection. Ray Noorda let me know, gently, that my job was on the line if sales started to drop. I never found out how serious he was. Needless to say, removing copy protection from NetWare was one of the key moves that caused NetWare to become ubiquitous."

"Microsoft is about to find out just how painful copy protection can be.The copy protection schemes being rolled out with Office and Windows XP are misguided and will cause more damage than increased revenues."

Craig Burton weblog

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