laws or copyrights. You don’t want to suffer because someone else has
plagiarized or pirated software. Be certain you’ll own the _master_
copies and instruction manuals that the consultant buys. Try to
register immediately with the software company as the buyer or user of
the disk. You want to know about updates of the product and about
debuggings, which you won’t find out about with a pirated copy. A
shady Massachusetts consultant has resold the same dBASE II program
ten or fifteen times. The buyers think he is purchasing it for them
and that he’s going to supply a version modified for their needs. “But
halfway through the work,” Green says, “he just walks off.”