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Subject: Re: Resedit
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Date: 31 Oct 90 01:35:51 GMT
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In <10123@ur-cc.UUCP> esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eran) writes:

>available at Apple.Com in some secret directory. I read in MacWeek
>that the new version is free and available on Bulletin Boards.

MacWeek is factually correct but morally wrong.  ResEdit *is* available
on bulletin boards, and it *is* free, but it's not *supposed* to be
distributed via bulletin boards, from my understanding.

Any BBS carrying it is supposed to be paying some kind of license fee
and adhering to some sort of agreement.  I don't know what it is, but 
I bet your local BBS isn't in it -- something about being affiliated
with APDA, I think.  Compu$erve and such services do have such arrangements,
I'm told.

I am co-sysop of a BBS in Lincoln and we have removed it on advice from
Apple.
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