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From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Thank you, Apple!
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.215407.11574@eda.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 21:54:07 GMT
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jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:

>In article <1990Mar25.125336.8932@uwasa.fi> hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) writes:
>>Thank you, Apple for letting us ftp your latest System
>>Software. IBM and Microsoft: how about do the same thing
>>with your OSs???? I like to see OS/2 for free!! Not to
>>pay for it a small fortune.

>I can't see Microsoft giving away OS/2.  I wouldn't ASK them to.  They have
>put a LOT of work into that package, and deserve to be paid for it.  Now,
>upgrades, on the other hand...

Your logic implies, though I'm sure you didn't intend it to, that
Apple has NOT put a lot of work into their package.

Reality is that if Macintosh clones begin selling, Apple will also
have to pull their system software from general free access, and
charge enough money to cover development costs, since they can no
longer depend on the equivelent revenue from their hardware.

Their current license policy says it cannot be run on non-Apple
hardware, but that is unenforceable if they lose the attempt to
prevent such hardware from existing.

jim

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