Well, they could send in the police to confiscate all of your computer equipment and software, and then not give it back until after the court has thrown out the case, which could be a year or more. Try writing much real software without a computer. -----Original Message----- From: Owen Robertson [mailto:univac2@earthlink.net] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:57 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: The Future End of Classic Computing <snip> I'm not very 'up' on intellectual property laws, but how can they *force* programmers, both corporate employees and individuals, to do this? -- Owen Robertson