Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!uunet!microsoft!darekm From: darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TT Tos disk available in France... Message-ID: <59145@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 16 Nov 90 23:29:43 GMT References: Reply-To: darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA) Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 31 In article suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen) writes: >In article glazou@mowitz.pdc.kth.se (Daniel Glazman) writes: > > I found on an finnish ftp site a interestinf file in pub/atari : > > -rw-r--r-- 1 548 mat 99459 Oct 21 21:33 TOS20.ARC > > >Yeah! It's there, and it is a demo of the new TT TOS. Go on and try... ^^^^ It always amazes me how people try to rationalize piracy by convincing themselves that they are in fact using a demo. Pirates strike again! The same guys who rationalize their unwillingness to pay for shareware by convincing themselves that shareware is equivalent to public domain. If it is the same "demo of the new TT TOS" that is circulating around here in Seattle, then what you have isn't really even a complete TOS. It only replaces the desktop and no other functions (GEM, etc). From the file size shown above, that would seem to be a correct assumption. Don't bother wasting your time downloading "demo of the new TT TOS". It is not a demo. It is not intended for public distribution. It is not legal. It is highly unstable. What purpose does it serve to be distributing and obvious pre-release version of a piece of software, since it only wastes people's time, and will only start inaccurate rumors of the new TOS being unstable, which it (the real one) is not. - Darek #include