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From: keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sys 7.0 :  Greedy Dealers?
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Date: 14 May 91 17:40:55 GMT
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In article <43080@netnews.upenn.edu>, warden@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Warden) writes...

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>Well, I've checked with several authorized dealers around the
>Philadelphia area and the ones that are expecting shipments
>soon say that they are only offering the personal upgrade
>option for $99.  What about just coping the system onto
>floppies I bring in?  The dealers "claim" to know nothing
>about such a policy.  I know that Apple's official policy
>allows this, but is there anything to force dealers to
>comply?  
This has been discussed numerous times.  There is no obligation
on the part of a dealer to let you copy, altho it is legal.  As 
the size of the system has grown from 1 400k to 10 800k disks,
fewer and fewer dealers can carry this out.  Join a user's group;
any decent group should have a license to distribute the system
also.  (Altho many users groups also charge a fee:  machines
and disks are not free!)