Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!midway!midway.uchicago.edu!francis From: francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: F/DA mover 4.1 (was lots of other things) Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 21:33:32 GMT References: <809@spam.ua.oz> <43028@cup.portal.com> <1991Jun7.152200.22794@eng.umd.edu> <1991Jun7.155829.25129@Think.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: ejb@think.com's message of 7 Jun 91 15: 58:29 GMT In article <1991Jun7.155829.25129@Think.COM> ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey) writes: >In article <1991Jun7.152200.22794@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: >>Hot is right. Apple's lawyers are probably going to be all over you like >>IRS agents... Good luck (aren't you a lawyer yourself?) >What on earth for? If anyone can grab 4.1 from ftp.apple.com (which I did >the day it was put up there a few months ago), why can't it be posted? I think the reason is that Apple has to be able to say they know how many legit copies are in existence in order to protect their copyright. If you FTP it from them, they know it & can count that; if you pull it off the Net, they have no idea. This is the same reason we couldn't redistribute Sys7. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, I just inferred this reasoning from something said as an objection to the Sys7 redistribution I suggested. -- /============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9? | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | --Ultimate Question | \============================================================================/