Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!milton!phaedrus From: phaedrus@milton.u.washington.edu (Mark Phaedrus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com? Message-ID: <17413@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 00:33:18 GMT References: <1991Feb28.150318.11265@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 28 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >[someone asking about whether System 7.0 will be on apple.com] > >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. Really? Many Apple dealers will give you any System version they have if you just bring in or buy the proper number of blank disks, and I don't think that Apple has ever been particularly opposed to that. I think the thing that has made electronic distribution a bit problematic is that the lawyers want to be able to know the names of everyone who gets system software from Apple; CI$/GEnie/etc. can theoretically provide this on request, but it's a bit difficult to manage with an anonymous ftp connection. >Updates, yes--but that doesn't give anybody the opportunity to violate >copyright: you need the old System to get the new one. All the System versions placed on apple.com have been complete; they haven't been "apply this to your System 6.0.3 disks to get 6.0.4" or anything. Of course, to unpack the images you need DiskCopy, and DiskCopy only runs with the system software already running... >(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.) Really? I just checked apple.com three minutes ago, and they had the complete 6.0.7 set available in pub/dts/sw.license, along with the proper versions of the CD-ROM and EtherTalk software. -- Internet: phaedrus@u.washington.edu (University of Washington, Seattle) The views expressed here are not those of this station or its management. "If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, consider an exciting career as a guillotine operator!"