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From: REEKES@applelink.apple.com (Jim Reekes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Macintalk - Does it have a future?
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Date: 26 Apr 91 06:08:45 GMT
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In article <5012@lib.tmc.edu>, drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
> 
> I run a Mac users group here in Houston. I just got a letter from Apple 
> Software Licensing that offered to let me update my distribution license 
> to include MacsBug 6.2, ResEdit 2.1 and Macintalk 1.31. No software would 
> be provided; I would have to get it from APDA or whatever.
> 
> This brings to mind two possibilities regarding Macintalk:
> 
> 1) Macintalk has a future and Apple is preparing a distribution channel 
> for it now.
> 
> 2) Those Macintalk disks are piling up in the warehouse and Apple's trying 
> to get what they can for them before they become completely useless.

The correct answer is 3).  You got a form letter generated from a computer
database that reports any lisencing agreements that are about to expire.

Jim Reekes, Toolbox Engineer