Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!inria!bull.bull.fr!echbull!mybull!bull.bull.fr!cediag!Patrick.Hayes From: Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr (Patrick Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.* Message-ID: Date: 18 Aug 90 09:07:20 GMT References: <95300004@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Aug4.213220.24200@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Aug6.140334.13458@eng.umd.edu> <1990Aug6.155227.25625@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@bull.bull.fr Organization: Cediag Bull S.A., Louveciennes, France Lines: 33 In-reply-to: dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of 6 Aug 90 15:52:27 GMT In article <1990Aug6.155227.25625@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes: >In article <1990Aug6.140334.13458@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: >> >>Well, APDA sells Multifinder and the system software too. Doesn't make them >>unable to be anon ftp'ed. Since ResEdit is licensable for electronic >>distribution from apple, it would seem to follow that Apple itself could >>electronically distribute it. > >True enough, but Apple doesn't make it available for anonymous FTP. I'd >be surprised, too, if Apple's licensing agreement (for other companies, >that is) allowed ResEdit to be distributed to anonymous users. They do >allow distribution on CompuServer and AppleLink (and probably others), >but access to those services is controlled (which, as I said in another >message, is the point--Apple doesn't want ResEdit to be available to >any user without having some information about them). > This was the exact same reason the heros at DTS had to work through before being allowed to put up the system software on apple.com. The legal droids needed the assurance that the distribution was NOT wide open. If I remember correctly, they modified the ftp server to keep a log of all transfers. This was sufficient for the droids then, so why would Resedit 2.0 be different? Hmmm? Pat -- +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Patrick Hayes | EMail : Patrick.Hayes@cediag.bull.fr | | BULL CEDIAG | or hayes@bull.fr | | 68, Route de Versailles | or ...!mcvax!inria!bullfr!hayes | | F-78430 Louveciennes FRANCE | Tel : (33 1) 39 02 49 55 | +-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+