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From: costello@stx.UUCP (Michael E. Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Sys 7.0 :  Greedy Dealers?
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Date: 15 May 91 07:43:50 GMT
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In article <1991May14.174148.4701@macc.wisc.edu>, keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC) writes:

> 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!)
> 
Just to elaborate on this point a moment. We're a user group (BCS*Mac), and we
will be distributing S7. A few points to consider:

1) We don't have our masters yet. They are expected sometime this week.

2) We will be charging $25 for the set.

3) Our license does not cover manuals.

4) Our license does not cover Hypercard 2.1.

I hesistate to post our number for phone orders, given that we don't
have the masters yet (and hence haven't even begun to duplicate). I'll
post when we're able to deal with mail orders. Feel free to email any
specific questions.

Regards,


Michael Costello, Meeting Director * costello@world.std.com * 617-625-7080
     BCS*Mac  *  The Boston Computer Society Macintosh User Group