SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (05/23/89)
>This is a standard part of the Apple Software Licensing agreement - it >basically says that Byte Works licensed the software for use with ORCA, and >your purchase of ORCA doesn't give you free reign to do with the Apple >software as you please. Of course, this isn't an official interpretation, >but it's part of all Apple Software Licensing agreements that I've ever >seen. The above has always been my understanding as well, but until our club entered a licensing arrangement with Apple which allows the club to make updates of ProDOS available to members, I always wondered about the case where: 1) I am a duly licensed user of ProDOS (bundled with my //c when I purchased it -- or perhaps the dealer simply made it part of the total sale; however). 2) Bye and bye I order software (Copy II+ for instance) which arrives with a more recent version of ProDOS than the one I'm using (earlier versions even had bug patches, apparently, as some of the ProDOS patch programs circulated in 1987 or so indicated that the ProDOS as received from Central Point was "already patched"). 3) The question is - since I'm a licensed user of ProDOS, am I legitimately entitled to copy a more recent version of ProDOS that happens to arrive on a commercial disk? As far as I know, Apple has never charged for ProDOS 8 upgrades - most dealers don't even ask to see a ProDOS disk with a real Apple label (I've got a couple around here somewhere). Apple supplies our Club with labels <black and white :-( > AND the upgrades often come with improved utilities as well. Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)