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The other main use of "shrink wrap" that I've seen was for software
that you could use with any computer based on a certain operating
system, without "opening the shrink wrap and customizing the software
for that particular platform". I believe that this came from UNIX
before the OS became as "standard" as it currently is; as a result,
you couldn't create a single UNIX version that could run on any
version of the OS, and thus you couldn't shrink wrap the software.
--Geoff Hart #8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: These comments are my own and don't represent the opinions
of the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada.
