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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Switcher 4.4 and any weird copyrights
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 13:19:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 13:19:44 1985
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Summary: 

In article <3795@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
>In fact, a few other people asked me about whether they could have copies of
>Switcher 4.4.  I understand, though, that Apple is going to market Switcher.
>So, is it legitimate for me to give copies of this program to other people?

I hope Larry will correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've heard there
is no restriction to non-commercial passing around of the switcher. Apple
will be selling a switcher package for about $20, but it will include the
documentation (inside switcher? a user package? I'm not sure which). If you
want the documentation, you buy the package. Companies that want to ship
Switcher as part of their package (Excel, I believe, does) pays a $50/year
fee and has to show Apple a debugged switcher application that can be used
as a turnkey setup. So what Apple is really planning on doing is making the
program available to those not lucky enough (or rich enough) to get it
through other distribution channels at minimal costs and also sell it to
the rest of us for the documenation -- since software is pretty trivial to
copy, selling the documentation makes a lot of sense.

chuq
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