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From: stuart@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (S. D. Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: 6.0.5 by ftp only (was Re: Thank you, Apple! (for again singling out 'the rest of us'))
Summary: ftp only due to lawyers
Message-ID: <14964@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 90 16:00:50 GMT
References: <1990Mar25.125336.8932@uwasa.fi> <2314@tellab5.tellabs.com> <1990Apr7.235132.15047@uokmax.uucp>
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In article <1990Apr7.235132.15047@uokmax.uucp>, rob@uokmax.uucp (Bolo) writes:
> In article <2364@tellab5.tellabs.com> kenk@tellab5.UUCP (Ken Konecki) writes:
> >In article <1465@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger) writes:
> >Money doesn't grow on tress and Internet hook ups are very expensive.
> >With respect to complaining at the source, the source is Apple. News
> 
> "Money doesn't grow on trees" is probably the reason. I know that if I were

When those emplyees at apple.com first mentioned that they might be soon
providing ftp access to future system software, they mentioned that the
problem was CONVINCING THE LAWYERS that they wouldn't loose any software
rights.

I believe the issue was one of being able to track who gets the software.
They were finally able to convince the lawyers that ftp tracks (logs) the
connections and thus they would know who got the software.

So the problem is a LEGAL one - the Apple Legal team is the one that won't
allow the other forms of distribution (yet?).

Stuart
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