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From: francis@math.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
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Subject: Re: Comm ToolBox availability?
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Date: 1 Dec 90 21:26:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.042648.24328@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes:
[...]
>
>GEnie, America Online, and probably a few other such services, are
>ALREADY licensed to distribute the CTB.  They've paid Apple a set
>annual fee for the privilege of letting people download it.
>
>The question on your minds... why then can't CTB be posted to
>USENET?  Well, Apple's software licensing requires that the distributors
>be able to provide information on who has downloaded the software.  The
>USENET distribution methods don't offer that kind of auditing abilities.

Question: do the commercial nets tell their users that they're
telling Apple this stuff?

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