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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Bigger Drives from Apple for A/UX????
Message-ID: <890005@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 19 May 88 16:11:49 GMT
References: <17280009@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>Or for even more outlandish requests how about shipping A/UX & docs on a CD for
>the Apple CD rom player? And if you provide a driver in A/UX to support the
>CD drive then the man pages can all be uncompressed!

At the recent SVNet A/UX presentation (at Apple, by Apple), someone asked when/if
Apple intended to put all the man pages and other Unix documentation on a CD ROM.
Apple's response was that it would be way off in the future, if ever, because 
there were all sorts of man page copyright issues to be settled first.  Even though Apple
rewrote most of the man pages, someone else originally wrote them, so there
is the issue of "inheritance" to be considered.  Basically, Apple needs to get
the permission of anyone who contributed to the man pages (AT&T, etc.) before
Apple modified them.   And they have to make royalty agreements with all of them
also.

One heckler said that even though Apple rewrote the man pages, "they still have
an AT&T 'look and feel'".  Everyone laughed and the Apple reps just looked chagrined.
As well they should.

-Ted