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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com?
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Date: 8 Mar 91 18:23:03 GMT
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sl242030@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Robert P. Humphrey) writes:

>Or, you can take in your old system disks (to show proof
>of ownership) and some blank disks and walk away with a free copy of
>the System release disks.
RPH>  Nope. According to Apple, no free-be's will be give out. The 
RPH> only tender for a trade-in will be a check for $50.

According to _whom_ at Apple?  Names, we need names.  Why?  Because, until System 7 comes out, I sincerely doubt that there's _any_ official Apple policy concerning its distribution.  It still officially doesn't exist, and therefore can't have any distribution policy connected to it.

So whomever you spoke with was obviously speaking unofficially and off the record, and you should disclaim that before stating what he/she says as fact.

I'm tired, real tired, of hearing "Well, I heard..." from everybody about system 7.  Claim your speculations as speculations, claim your facts as facts, and keep the two separate.  Whenever I hear "I heard from some guy...", I immediately consider the _opposite_ of whatever follows, and usually that opposite is equally a likely candidate for being true.

What's Latin for "reader beware?"

--Adam--
 
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