Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!enterprise!greg
From: greg@enterprise.Sun.COM (Greg George - Sun Area Project Consultant - Midwest )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple will be charging for System 7.0 (TM) (C) etc...
Message-ID: <3851@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 20:52:47 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.041147.5758@CAM.ORG>
Sender: news@texsun.Central.Sun.COM
Reply-To: greg@enterprise.Central.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems Consulting - Detroit
Lines: 29

In article <1991Apr23.041147.5758@CAM.ORG>, pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) writes:
|> Just thought you might like to know that System 7.0 will NOT be made
|> available through 'copy-all-you-want' dealers, user groups, etc...
|> 
|> Apple will be charging (I can't reveil the amount 'cuz of non-disclosure,
|> but I was told that I could say to customers that there will be a fee
|> involved) for System 7.0 .  


|>Lets just say you could buy yourself a copy
|> of Windows 3.0 for a lot less. 

Gee, thats interesting, I just spoke to a friend of mine at a large
software distributor who already has a retail price of $99.00. With
normal "street" pricing it should be selling for ~$80.00.
 
|> You won't even escape the cost by buying a new Mac.  7.0 won't ship in the
|> box until September (at least in Canada).
|> 
|> That's about all I can say until May 13th...  
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|> | Pascal Gosselin          | Internet: P.Gosselin@CAM.ORG Applelink: CDA0585 |
|> | Gest-Mac Inc. Apple VAR  |   Voice (514) 767-4444   Fax (514) 767-7337     |
|> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

greg