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From: lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Connectix MODE32
Message-ID: <1468@radius.com>
Date: 30 May 91 19:32:54 GMT
References: <270790.2841D1A9@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <8063@testeng1.misemi> <1991May29.175351.17482@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:

>In article <8063@testeng1.misemi>, stanfiel@testeng1.misemi (Chris Stanfield) writes:
>|> I heard last night at our Mac users' group meeting, that Apple are
>|> supposed to be buying 4000 sets of Code32 for in-house use. Anyone at
>|> Apple care to comment on the validity of this statement?
>I'm not at Apple, but this doesn't sound likely. Surely they would
>get a site licence.

A "site license" is not just a generic "copy as much as you want" sort of
thing.  Large companies will often negotiate a large quantity purchase, but
it is just that - a purchase, and not a site license.  Thus, it is entirely
possible that Apple negotiated to purchase 4000 copies of Mode32 rather than
obtain a site license for it.

Note that I have no idea whether or not they DID do this, but was merely
pointing out that they often do quantity purchases rather than site licenses.

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