Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!uudell!pmafire!geoff From: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Need Help Reading MacWrite Docs With Word 4.0 Summary: Can old MacWrite be distributed? Message-ID: <1990Mar01.153357.7073@pmafire.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 90 15:33:57 GMT References: <1203@swbatl.UUCP> <1205@swbatl.UUCP> Reply-To: geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering, INEL, Idaho Lines: 21 george@swbatl.UUCP (George Nincehelser 5-6544) writes: > >Wouldn't it be nice if the word processing program publishers would >put out at little or no charge a "lobotomized" version of their >program that would only print or view their product's documents? Does anyone know the ethics (or lack thereof) of distributing old copies of MacWrite (e.g. 4.x or 5.x) to be used for such a prupose? Since it's no longer produced, it seems like Claris wouldn't lose anything in the deal. Could an old copy of MacWrite be leagaly (and ethically) distributed via avenues such as the net, CIS, GEnie, etc.? Just wondering... -- Geoff Allen \ I don't want to yield to fashion and {uunet|bigtex}!pmafire!geoff \ make the Macintosh as ugly as OS/2 ucdavis!egg-id!pmafire!geoff \ --Jean-Louis Gassee, Apple Computer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ p.s. is this still true?