Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!rosie!gehenna From: cmacaskl@gehenna (Chris McAskill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 2.1 Update: Archive site Message-ID: <562@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 25 Apr 91 02:19:15 GMT References: Sender: news@NeXT.COM Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: gehenna.next.com In article hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) made some good points: > Since your complaining seems to have drawn some action, here is one > from another recent NeXT-convert who needs some convincing that he > made the right choice: I can't get most of my output printed properly > via the serial port (either from dvips, or Writenow, or the Librarian, > or SoftPC). NeXT admits that an upgrade to 2.1 would solve the problem > (and Insignia tells me the same) but our Campus has not gotten the > upgrade diskettes. How about placing the distribution on some Archive > site? We'd like to place it on some archive site, and we certainly recognize that it would make life easier. Unfortunately, this update software contains code from several of our third party partners. Our legal agreements with them permit a single copy of the update product to be distributed amongst persons only if they are in the same organization. Please note that this does not hold for all software products in general. All machines within the same organization may use a single Update Set to upgrade to 2.1 provided that the purchaser of all the machines and the single Update Set are the same. Thus a corporation and a university need only buy a single Update Set for all their employees. Individual purchasers who happen to work at a corporation or university will need to buy individual Update Sets. Sorry for the hassles. Chris MacAskill cmac@next.com .. Gettin' my flame suit on ...