Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:6758 comp.sys.mac.wanted:2013 Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!mts.rpi.edu!Garance_Drosehn From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Obtaining MacTCP Message-ID: Date: 13 Dec 90 06:02:44 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: gilead.its.rpi.edu References:<10692@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <27656E82.5BB@intercon.com> <1$F^+V_@rpi.edu> <2766A630.115C@intercon.com> In article <2766A630.115C@intercon.com> kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) writes: > No you are correct. You can obtain site licenses from Apple. Price > varies depending on who you are (commercial/university). If you don't > want site licensing you can get one copy from APDA for about $85 or $100. > > If you site licenses a product that MacTCP comes with you should/will > become site licensed for MacTCP as well. That's not quite an answer to what I'm asking. The above sounds like a product *may* come with MacTCP, or an organization *may* get a site liscense. My question is whether a product that requires MacTCP is *supposed* to include MacTCP with the product. If MacTCP products are supposed to come with MacTCP, then there isn't much reason for an organization to spend the money for it's own site liscense (unless it's developing some MacTCP application of it's own, I guess). Not to argue with your answer, of course. It's just that the answer to my question seems to vary a lot with who is answering it (I guess that's to be expected on Usenet...:-). Right now I'm using a single copy of MacTCP which I bought from APDA, along with several products which use MacTCP but did not come with MacTCP. I have my own reasons for buying MacTCP, but I'm not sure where I stand if someone comes to me and says "Hey, I have this neat application which needs MacTCP, can I make a copy of yours?". Is MacTCP systems-ish software, which can be given to anyone who can legitmately use it? If a product requires MacTCP but doesn't come with it, can the user say "Gee, this company screwed up" and simply copy MacTCP from someone else, or do they have to spend the $70 (or whatever it is) to get a legit copy from APDA? Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu ITS Systems Programmer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY. USA