At 12:06 PM 8/22/94 -0400, John Young wrote:
NY Times wrote yesterday on "metering" of software usage by soft and hard means. This type of monitoring could easily, Clipperly, "1984"-ishly, record and report on other activities of the user.
Then there's this company called, I think, "Wave" Inc. out of Colorado somewhere. The first time I heard of it was in Peter Huber's Forbes column a year or so ago. The guy who's fronting it is a former chairman of a large defense contractor (United Technologies?). It involves metering application software use down to the second, using PC boards and the internet, or some other WAN equivalent. A dongle is forever... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) "There is no difference between someone Shipwright Development Corporation who eats too little and sees Heaven and 44 Farquhar Street someone who drinks too much and sees Boston, MA 02331 USA snakes." -- Bertrand Russell (617) 323-7923