Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com? Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 91 01:08:05 GMT References: <1991Feb28.150318.11265@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <13340@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 38 klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (Steve Klingsporn) writes: >Umm, you're quite wrong. I believe Apple licenses System Software for other >developers to use, and you "agree" to a license when you buy a Macintosh, >yet there is no such thing as "pirated" system software, for when >you buy a Macintosh, you have license to any and all system software >(A/UX not included) that Apple will release. You are indeed licensed to use Apple's System Software when you buy a Mac. As with most licensing agreements, there are restrictions. If you look closely you will find that you can only use the software on an Apple machine. See below for more on this topic. >Check bbs's -- it's there. In most cases, it shouldn't be. You need a license to distribute it (and, no matter what anybody tells you, you need a similar license to distribute ResEdit). >Check America Online, CompuServe, etc. -- it's there. That's because they're licensed to redistribute it. >How do you prove you're a mac user? Bring in a floppy w/ an Apple on it? >Bring in your Mac? >People who aren't Mac users don't have a use for SysSoft anyhow. :) What about all the people with AMAXs and Atari emulators? >Steve >. I'm terribly sorry to burst your bubble with some facts and reality. -- % Internet : hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu | Insert cute and/or % % America Online : JonHam | deeply meaningful % % Elsewhere : ThatGeek@his.little.corner | musical quote here %