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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: $99 for System 7.0?!?
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Date: 25 Apr 91 09:02:51 GMT
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Gee, why aren't you listening?
The facts: READ APPLES SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT and live happily ever after.
When buying a mac you buy a LIFETIME (the macs lifetime, of course) right to
use Apples System Software (AU/X not included) including all future releases.
That means you can get even
System 238 for FREE if you find someone who can copy it for you.
Shurely you won't expect to get all the disks and Papers and Books (Manuals)
for free. They cost A LOT OF MONEY. An System 7.0 upgrade  pack includes
at least 5 HD disks or 9 DD disks. That's about $10 raw material. If you think
of maybe 1,000,000 potential purchasers that makes $10 million. And that does
not include all the paper and manuals also necessary for a lot of people.
So you have to add appr. $40 for books (apple's manual are kind of High Qual.)
about $20 for administration, distribution and Toll Free Support line, that
adds to about $70 cost for each package. And finally your dealer wants to live
as well. Considering that, a price of $99 seems quite fair.
And for those who don't need manuals, just get your copy from a dealer willing
to charge you nothing for it. I bet Apple won't bother a lot if you get your
copy from a friend. Remember you are already licensed to use it.

Oliver.

Disclaimer: I got all my information from reading the german license agreement.
I will take no responsibility for anything that result from acting on my words.
Everything you do is therefore your own problem.