Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:6319 comp.sys.mac.comm:1734 comp.sys.mac.wanted:1812 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Comm ToolBox availability? Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 14:43:54 GMT References: <39@bootsie.UUCP> <1990Nov30.042648.24328@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1990Dec1.212640.13301@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 23 In comp.sys.mac.comm, article <1990Dec1.212640.13301@midway.uchicago.edu>, francis@math.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: < In article <1990Nov30.042648.24328@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) writes: < > < > < >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? < No -- but are they? All the agreement seems to say (or so the above information says) is that they are _able_ to tell Apple who did it. I don't think anyone at Apple is really interested in that information..? Or in fact that anyone ever told Apple who has downloaded System software from their network/BBS/whatever...? -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49+721+621127(0700-2330) \o)/