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From: rsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Roby Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: ** Watchout for the Abaton Interfax **
Message-ID: <1991May01.231623.13064@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 23:16:23 GMT
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In <1991May1.214012.365@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:


>Funny.  I have the May '90 alpha release, and there is no prohibition about
>talking about System 7.0, only about giving it away.  

>No one in the company signed any separate nondisclosure about System 7.0.
>--
>Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
>     .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.


Funny... Usually Apple doesn't send out alpha copies.. They are generally
use internally. Anyways... I never said we couldn't DISCUSS system 7, I mean
after all, between Mac Week and Apple Employees, they've discussed it till
the cows came home. But as far as I was told, System 7 was provided to
developers as a courtesy for them to get their products up to par by the
time it's released. It was NOT intended to be installed on EVERY machine in
the office (Machines not used for development, IE: clerical functions, etc),
making many machines have problems, and in turn causing the
developer to have to pester other companies, who are scurrying to ready THEIR
OWN products, to have them stop and ship them an Alpha or Beta copy, because
THEY couldn't wait to install System 7 everywhere in the office.
Now who's fault is that?

                   --Roby


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