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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.*
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Date: 5 Sep 90 15:48:53 GMT
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In article <1990Aug5.182816.13453@portia.Stanford.EDU> draphsor@portia.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson) writes:
#>dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes:
#>>draphsor@portia.stanford.edu writes:
#>>>markt@wpi.wpi.edu (Mark Robert Tsombakos) writes:
#>>>> Hello! Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for MultiFinder
#>>>> 6.1b9.  Now I'm lookin for the new ResEdit 2.whatever.
#> 
#>>> There seems to be a high degree of demand for these two programs.  Is
#>>> there any reason, legal or other, that they can't be made available for
#>>> anonymous FTP?  Or failing that, posted to the mac .hqx newsgroup?  Or
#>>> failing that, put up on a mail-server somewhere?
#> 
#>>> Assuming that none of these things are possible, I'd appreciate it if
#>>> some kind soul would send me copies of both, as well.
#>
#>>ResEdit is _not_ free.  It is sold by APDA (not sure of the price), like any
#>>of the tools in the MPW Suite.  Putting ResEdit up for anonymous FTP or
#>>mailing to somebody would be just like putting up MPW or any of the
#>>MPW compilers.  (I don't think the same is true of MultiFinder, however.)
#>
#>I hadn't realized this.  Thank you for clarifying this fact.  Please
#>withdraw my request for ResEdit 2.*.
#>
#>As for MultiFinder, it being system software I'd imagine that it *is*
#>free.  Anyone with any information to the contrary, please let me know.
#>
#>>David Walton		Internet: dwal@midway.uchicago.edu

#>Draphsor vo'drun-Aelf                  draphsor@portia.stanford.edu

System software isn't strictly free, though Apple dealers are
given the option by Apple of giving it away. They are also
allowed to charge for it.

Indeed, if you buy the complete system with manuals, you always
have to pay for it (when you bought a new machine, you did pay for
it).

Steve Goldfield