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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Version 1.3 is out!
Message-ID: <5073@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 88 19:58:24 GMT
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Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
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In article <31247@bbn.COM> cosell@BBN.COM (Bernie Cosell) writes:
>  Wait: I remember it now: if you bought some
>  software that would only run with 1.2, they threw in 1.2 for free (or,
>  more precisely, the cost of a disk to hold it on).  Since Commodore had no
>  stake in the sale of the software, I assumed that the dealer-sanctioned
>  copying was legit on the face of it.

	Not neccesarily a good assumption.  I doubt Commodore would tell
any dealer that (for legal reasons).  However, I'm also not real suprised
that a lot of 1.2's were copied, instead of bought.  I didn't notice
Commodore getting upset, no suprise since they weren't trying to make
money on it (note: these were my observations at the time, before I was a 
Commodore employee.  These are not the opinions of Commodore Business
Machines or Commodore/Amiga.)

-- 
You've heard of CATS? Well, I'm a member of DOGS: Developers Of Great Software.
Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup