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From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.1
Message-ID: <Mar.18.03.10.15.1991.19380@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 08:10:17 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.034512.23324@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, madler@roo.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:

> I think distributing a product over internet might cross some legal bounds
> that are already being streached somewhat.  However, if someone who gets
> the 2.1 upgrade puts on someplace like cs.orst.edu, and NeXT promises not
> to complain about copyrights (after all, the upgrade is useless without
> 2.0), then NeXT can claim they didn't do it, and everyone wins.

Apple already does this, by making Macintosh system disks available
for anonymous FTP from apple.com (or is it now ftp.apple.com?).  In
the case of NeXTstep 2.1, though, the changes are more bug fixes than
an entire new release of the operating system, and can be placed on an
archive site without any legal problems, no?

-Declan