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From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Apple/Microsoft Technology Agreement
Message-ID: <514@sunfs3.camex.uucp>
Date: 25 Sep 89 20:47:25 GMT
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Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
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In article <5222@merlin.usc.edu> malczews@girtab.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) writes:
>In article <31802@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@src.honeywell.com (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>>The phrase "pricing and availability" from the press
>>release about the Apple/Microsoft technology agreement
>>sent a shiver up my spine.
>>
>>Apple is going to start charging extra for their
>>system software, aren't they?
>>
>>Say it ain't so, Joe. PLEASE!  :(  :(  :(  :(
>>
>
>When 7.0 was announced, I recall seeing a phrase with the word "nominal" in it;
>it had to do with pricing.  That sent a shiver or two up my spine at the time...


I also hope they don't do it.  It isn't that it wouldn't be worth it,
or that I can't affort $200-or-whatever they might charge...it is that
I don't want to have to spend my time on Usenet reading gripes about
it...

Seriously, Apple has great hardware-key copy protection for their
system software: there are no clones.  They would lose a lot if we
have to start worrying about piracy and whether machine X has payed
for release Y.  

Keep the distribution as unencumbered as possible.  Charge something
for shrink wrapped boxes, but don't limit distribution more than that.

-- 
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