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Shareware Library
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Taylor, Houston Cole Library)
Wed May 6 11:29:28 1992
Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 10:13:33 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
From: "Doug Taylor, Houston Cole Library" <FDT1%JSUMUS.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>
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Please send answers to the individual and not to the
List. Thank you.
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Our Library is considering organizing a Shareware/Freeware
Library. We are aware of the CD-Roms that are available
and of other producers that make this stuff available. My
questions are:
1. How do you keep people from copying the software from the
CD-Rom onto the hard drive? (We have considered going
with a computer that has floppy drives only.)
2. Is there any extra security precautions that must be taken
to insure that no one steals the CD-Rom? (Figuring that
a few mega-bytes of software might be more of a temptation
then, say, the ERIC CD-Rom, or some of the other "Index-type"
CD-Roms.)
I would particularly like to hear from Librarians that have organzed
a Shareware/Freeware Library. What kind of problems have they had,
the level of usage and any suggestions they might have. Thanks.
Doug Taylor
Houston Cole Library
Jacksonville State University
Jacksonville, Alabama 36265
fdt1@jsumus
jsudmt01@asnjsu.asn.net
