Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!ucsbuxa!6600zot From: 6600zot@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Jason S. White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com? Message-ID: <9540@hub.ucsb.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 00:05:48 GMT References: <1991Feb28.150318.11265@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@hub.ucsb.edu Lines: 41 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >Excuse me--are you under the impression that *current* Systems are >there? No. Don't be silly. The System is extremely copyrighted, and >Apple would never give it out to just anybody. >Updates, yes--but that doesn't give anybody the opportunity to violate >copyright: you need the old System to get the new one. >Never mind that it's not exactly difficult to get. We're talking >about a company that makes you buy a license if you want to put the >System on the distribution disks of your app. >(Actually, the most recent update on there is 6.0.4--but then, I think >they stopped putting stuff on that archive some time ago.) >-- Excuse me--are you under the impression that *current* systems are not at apple.com? I just finished FTPing there, and what did I see? I saw system 6.0.7 with all of the utilities, the whole thing!!!! It was just a simple anonymous ftp, that's all! As for 7.0, there is a good chance. Since on can supposedly go to any authorized apple dealer and request the latest system and get it without much of a problem, I think that this will hold for posting of the overdue update. I'm also sure that they will have the update on America Online and other places like that. We have to wait until April?????? -6600zot@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Jason S. White 6600zot@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | | jsw@sbphy.ucsb.edu | | "What do you mean entropy?" white@sgt-york.lanl.gov \ u106703@beta.lanl.gov / ----------------------------------------------------------------------------