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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaCie disk drives
Message-ID: <2881@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 31 May 88 19:41:53 GMT
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Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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>The LaCie Silver Server/Silver Lining software sure sounds like it is more
>useful and offers more varied capabilities than some of the utilities from
>other drive manufacturers.  However, is it really legal to use this sort of
>software on our homebrew drive or your drive from another company if you have
>not purchased a LaCie drive and software?
>
>I'd like to know, should I be in the position someday to use the Silver
Server/Silver Lining software, if I could legally do so without buying it.

No, you cannot use Silver Lining without buying "it."  "It," however, no longer
implies buying the drive.  When Silver Server came out, they packaged a disk
with Silver Server and Silver Lining together, and now sell it separately from
the drives.
-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
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