chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) (07/23/86)
John Sculley recently spent an evening on CompuServe talking with the Apple
User Group people. Since the Apple licensing agreement has been a matter of
debate here, I thought I'd pass along his comment on it.
chuq
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(Franklin T/LAMG&SGV) The recent posting of the newest Macintosh system
software on CIS and elsewhere was accompanied by a rather restrictive
licence agreement that limits usage to the individual doing the
downloading. This has met with some criticism from the User Group
community - we feel that we be of service to our members by
distributing such material. How do you respond to this concern? Thank
you. - Franklin Tessler, M.D. Los Angeles Macintosh Group San Gabriel
Valley M.U.G.
(John Sculley) Franklin, Ellen Leanse is here with me and sends her
regards. As you know, this is a very tough legal issue, and we have
to be careful not to establish precedents which will affect our
intellectual property protection in the future. Remember that we're
all working towards the same goal; it just takes some time to get
there. What IS in the works now is a probablity that system software
will be made available to User Groups for their distribution to
members -- not on PD disks, for reasons too complicated to describe
here but just as disk-to-disk exchange or upgrade. Obviously, this is
something that would benefit both Apple and User Groups.
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Of Brahamana and recluse the honoured name!
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