Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: System 5.0.2 Message-ID: <35796@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 21 Oct 89 00:53:16 GMT References: <8910191051.aa13172@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 27 In article gt0t+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gregory Ross Thompson) writes: > > What's keeping someone from putting 5.0.2 on comp.binaries or >Apple2.L? Is it the size? If not, then why not put it up there. >Some people (like me) don't have access to a dealer... > > -Greg T. Mainly, the fact that Apple's system software is not shareware or freeware but copyrighted software that Apple makes available to its customers through dealers, CPU packages and electronic licensing agreements. The software can be electronically licensed, but the license agreement requires that all who access it electronically agree to certain terms and conditions, and that the licensee (the electronic service) have the name and address of everyone who receives the software. (Did I use the word "electronic" enough for a first post in three months?) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that AppleLink PE: Matt DTS GEnie: AIIDTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its CompuServe: 76703,3030 | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, Usenet: mattd@apple.com | have any opinion on any subject." UUCP: (other stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------