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From: maymudes@husc4.UUCP (David Maymudes,,,4982298)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net? (Was latest version...)
Message-ID: <1936@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 25 May 89 20:40:21 GMT
References: <31641@apple.Apple.COM>
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From article <31641@apple.Apple.COM>, by jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson):
> 
> 	MacsBug is available from APDA.  It is also available - sans manual -
> from the various electronic services (Compuserve, Genie, AppleLink).
> 	Due to the rules of the US Copy right office, we cannot make MacsBug 
> available either via Usenet or via anon FTP.

Why should there be any difference between making MacsBug available over
Compuserve and Genie and making it available by FTP?  AppleLink makes some kind
of sense, because it is restricted to developer types.  Are the CS and Genie
areas with MacsBug public, or limited to people who have AppleLink anyway?

If the point is that only developers should be able to get copies of MacsBug
without going through APDA, that's OK, I suppose; but even then, it would be
convenient for some developers (read "me") to have some (possibly passworded)
ftp access to Apple.

If the copyright question arises because the net is "public" and free, while
Compu$erve is "private" and non-free, then I feel that the net is being
shortchanged, and that the distinction is probably being made by people who
own Compuserve stock. (:-), sort of.

David Maymudes
maymudes@husc4.harvard.edu


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