Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!mjohnson
From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacsBug available on Compuserve, not net? (Was latest version...)
Message-ID: <31666@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 May 89 22:47:17 GMT
References: <31641@apple.Apple.COM> <1936@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1936@husc6.harvard.edu> maymudes@husc4.UUCP writes:
>
>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?
>

MacsBug is not limited to developers.  It is available on certain electronic
networks because the people running these networks have a license from Apple
to redistribute it.  To redistribute, they have to have a record of all those
people who download it, have made sure the people read the license agreement,
and a few other non-trivial things.  This is the difference between systems
like CompuServe and AppleLink (people have accounts which can be tracked and
downloaded files can be tracked) and the Internet (anonymous FTP doesn't make
these sorts of requirements very easy to meet).
 
You can be sure that people within Apple are trying to figure out a way to
make things like this available via other sources, but until we can do so
and still please our Software Licensing and Legal departments, we won't.
 
Another difference for the Internet is "commercial use."  As other networks
are for commercial use and the Internet is not.


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