george@swbatl.UUCP (6544) (03/01/90)
I've noticed that SuperLaserSpool 2.01df has just come down the pipe of comp.binaries.mac. Isn't SuperLaserSpool 2.0 a product of SuperMac Software? There is a trademark symbol by the words SuperLaserSpool in the documentation, but there is not mention of copyright, an author's name, or a publisher's name. I tried installing the program to see if this information was available, but I can't get it to work on my IIcx running 6.04. What I really want to know is why a commercial product (if it really is) was posted to comp.binaries.mac. Could someone explain? -- / George D. Nincehelser \ uunet!swbatl!george \ / / Southwestern Bell Telephone \ Phone: (314) 235-6544 \ / / / Advanced Technology Laboratory \ Fax: (314) 235-5797 \ / / / /\ 1010 Pine, St. Louis, MO 63101 \ de asini umbra disceptare \
francis@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (RD Francis) (03/01/90)
In article <1206@swbatl.UUCP> george@swbatl.UUCP (6544) writes: >I've noticed that SuperLaserSpool 2.01df has just come down the pipe >of comp.binaries.mac. Isn't SuperLaserSpool 2.0 a product of >SuperMac Software? > >There is a trademark symbol by the words SuperLaserSpool in the >documentation, but there is not mention of copyright, an author's >name, or a publisher's name. > >I tried installing the program to see if this information was >available, but I can't get it to work on my IIcx running 6.04. > >What I really want to know is why a commercial product (if it >really is) was posted to comp.binaries.mac. Could someone >explain? SuperMac sells DataFrame hard drives. When you purchase a DataFrame, you get a number of programs that SuperMac also sells. These programs are specially written, so that they only work *if you have a DataFrame hard drive* on your system. These programs include SuperLaser Spool, SuperSpool, DiskFit, and SuperMac's disk management software (Manager, which was posted immediately prior to SLS). The DataFrame only versions of these software packages are labelled with a df at the end of the version number. Upgrades to these packages are free to all DataFrame users, and can be posted to national networks, etc. because *only* DataFrame users can do anything with them (hence, you inability to run the software). This is essentially the same as including such items as updater programs for Suitcase II, Pyro, or After Dark in c.b.m, a practice which has been going on for a long time now. Quick aside -- I, for one, have noticed that the log-jam Roger Long (c.b.m moderator) has been experiencing seems to have finally broken, for the time being. We are getting several items coming through c.b.m every day. I just wanted to express my appreciation to Mr. Long for his efforts on our behalf -- R David Francis francis@cis.ohio-state.edu
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (03/02/90)
As quoted from <1206@swbatl.UUCP> by george@swbatl.UUCP (6544): +--------------- | I've noticed that SuperLaserSpool 2.01df has just come down the pipe | of comp.binaries.mac. Isn't SuperLaserSpool 2.0 a product of | SuperMac Software? +--------------- Yes, it is... as is the DataFrame hard drive. (Not the "df" suffix.) DataFrame drives come with slightly customized versions of some SuperMac programs, like SLS. These versions are perfectly safe to distribute because they check for a mounted DataFrame hard drive before they do anything, and will refuse to function if one isn't found. (SCSI drives have ID strings in with the disk geometry information.) ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery (human), allbery@NCoast.ORG (Inet), BALLBERY (MCI Mail) ALLBERY (Delphi), uunet!cwjcc.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery (UUCP), B.ALLBERY (GEnie) BrandonA (A-Online) ("...and a partridge in a pear tree!" ;-)
dave@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David McKallip) (03/02/90)
In article <1206@swbatl.UUCP> george@swbatl.UUCP (6544) writes: >I've noticed that SuperLaserSpool 2.01df has just come down the pipe >of comp.binaries.mac. Isn't SuperLaserSpool 2.0 a product of >SuperMac Software? >What I really want to know is why a commercial product (if it >really is) was posted to comp.binaries.mac. Could someone >explain? > Certain commercial products come free with a Dataframe harddrive. These versions of such products will work ONLY when Dataframe is connected. As such updates to these products are distributed freely (since the disk acts as a hardware key somehow). I believe that SuperLaserSpool is one of these products (that is the reason for the df at the end of the version (for DataFrame -) ). This is why you could not get it to work. If I am mistaken, would someone post correction? (preferably a DataFrame owner, since they would know what came with their drive). Dave McKallip "There's nothing in greater supply than our ignorance, dave@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu and there's no demand for it" -- Charles Osgood, CBS
werner@zephyr.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) (03/02/90)
re: Is this legal? I've noticed that SuperLaserSpool 2.01df has just come down the pipe of comp.binaries.mac. Isn't SuperLaserSpool 2.0 a product of SuperMac Software? the version posted was posted by me with permission from SuperMac and is a modified version of the commercial software which is distributed free with Dataframe disks and is only useful to owners of Dataframes and when using a Dataframe (the software goes out looking for the DataFrame ROMs on the SCSI-bus ...) I don't know how it happened, but somehow no introductory note was attached to the article, nor a disclaimer which I am usually so proud to add. Maybe I assumed that the file as I had received it from SuperMac was self-explanatory - so much for assumptions. but I'd like to point out that I also posted an article to comp.sys.mac explaining all about how this version is only useful on DataFrames - and I sent an article to comp.newprod with the official press release by SuperMac describing the product. actually, I may have sent the needed explanation in the submission to the moderator and he dropped it - I don't now. I'm not looking for who dropped the ball, but apologize for the shortcoming of the submission. BTW, when you have questions about the legality, why not send email to the submitter rather than getting the whole world nervous? ... :-) Cheers, ---Werner -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1) UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!werner