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From: tok@slammer.UUCP (Terry Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.0 beta availability
Message-ID: <934@slammer.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 14:47:29 GMT
Organization: Just me and my computers.  Norcross, Ga.
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Regarding my posting that mentioned the possibility of making a beta
version of 2.0 available to anon ftp, bad news from IBM's NSC bbs:


> ... the files cannot be further distributed once you have downloaded them.
> There are certain rammifications to that, including the fact that we will
> have a set of conditions to which you must agree before our BBS will allow
> you to download the code.  I would also hate to see a lot of folks out
> there get very early code who could not read that agreement and know what
> they were getting into.  This enables us to keep some semblance of control
> over the code which is, after all, copyrighted by both IBM and Microsoft.

Oh well.  At least, if you can afford the phone-tolls, or have PC-Pursuit...
you can download it yourself.  I have no intention of getting mixed up
with IBM in court!