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From: pascal@CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple will be charging for System 7.0 (TM) (C) etc...
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.005826.1050@CAM.ORG>
Date: 24 Apr 91 00:58:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.041147.5758@CAM.ORG>
Organization: Altitude.CAM.ORG, St-Lambert QC  CANADA
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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. 

>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...  

In a self-reply, I'd like to mention (as many people pointed out to me)
that this in the situation in Canada.  It seems that Apple just couldn't
take the bad press of doing a similar move in the U.S. 


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