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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS/OS
Message-ID: <18051@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 88 07:04:49 GMT
References: <8809302002.aa26185@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: keith@apple.com.UUCP (Keith Rollin)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8809302002.aa26185@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.BITNET ("Scott, part time fuzzy") writes:
>
>  BTW, I also am interested in the // technotes mentioned at the end of the
>summer.  Are these going to hit netland any day soon?  (Keith?)
>

Honest to Gawd, they're in their final stages. At least, the GS ones are. They
should be released first, quickly to be followed by the updated versions of the
rest.

As for whether or not they'll be on the net...I don't know. I'll try everything
I can to get them up, but Apple Legal and Licensing don't like Official Apple
Goodies loaded onto electronic services without a distribution license. Since
there is no moderator of any of the comp.sys.apple newsgroups, there is no one
to sign a distribution agreement.

Why is a distribution license necessary? Well, there's a feeling that someone
needs to be responsible for the information. These documents have Apple's name
on them, and Apple wouldn't like it if someone were to take the technotes,
change them, and re-upload them as the real thing. I think that this is a very
unlikely situation, but we have to have our a**es covered.

anyway, this issue isn't final. I have a feeling that we'll get them up here
some way or another....


Keith Rollin                                               amdahl\
Developer Technical Support                           pyramid!sun !apple!keith
Apple Computer                                             decwrl/
"You can do what you want to me, but leave my computer alone!"