The copyright issue is a world wide joke. Whole, entire, countries and populations do not honor US copyright laws. Heck, you can buy a copy of Windows newest OS on good clean CDs on the streets of Bangkok, bundled with their newest office all for 10 bucks unless you get them down to 5 dollars. What a nightmare? The copyright law for software written in 1978 gave advantage to software companies to make millions off of junk and when it didn't work or quit working you got to buy a backup for 10 bucks but after that it went back up to 50 bucks. THere are sites on the Net that you can download the newest edition of everything. But it operates out the mousetrap level of our economy. If a company can come up with a better, cheaper, or potentially cheaper product, ... we're looking at new rules of the game. How about Apple and Sun, marketing a cheaper Suite of Office Applications. I bet Microsoft lives on the edge everyday they look at the industry because it would only take a year to see their market go to nothing. Anybody remember, Wordstar, Deskmate, Allwrite, ... . Tough stuff. Dale -- Caddo County Harpman - ccharpman! "If you can't harp the blues, then you ain't a harp player." (Eladicious 5,02) ADD RE to TIRED and you get ... me. X-Public School Educator. Macintosh is to computers as Mercedes is to cars. http://users.netride.net/dhill
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