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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com?
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Date: 1 Mar 91 13:53:12 GMT
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In article <FRANCIS.91Feb28164330@daisy.uchicago.edu> francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
>
>Updates, yes--but that doesn't give anybody the opportunity to violate
>copyright: you need the old System to get the new one.
>
There are files containing 6.0.7 which is the most recent release. Do they
contain only an update?? As far as I know Apple never fools around with
updater programs so if you try to install the files on an empty HD you 
undoubtedly can do so.

>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.
>
Due to excellent reliability of the MacOS you never have to include
the system on your disk. There are a lot of PD or comercial 3rd party
products performing installation operations.

Oliver.