Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: System 7.0 - Will it be on apple.com? Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 21:43:30 GMT References: <1991Feb28.150318.11265@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu's message of 28 Feb 91 15:03:18 GMT In article <1991Feb28.150318.11265@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) writes: Message crossposted to comp.sys.mac.comm and c.s.m.system. Why? [says Sys7 won't be available for download] But what about the ftp archives that Apple maintains? Are they included in this pronouncement? Will System 7.0 be available via anonymous ftp, or will System Software >= 7.0 no longer be present in the archives? (Something that ought to make the bloody lawyers happy, 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.) -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/