Re: Just bought an Apple II

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <391B6A27.F0F22CDF@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
 
> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> It's interesting that it was so accepted among the Apple II community
>> to spread pirate copies of Apple DOS like that -- not even Apple
>> Computer ever seemed to mind!
> 
> Paul, I can't speak about every package I have, but many, at least, had
> copyright notices and/or license notices that DOS was copyrighted by Apple
> Computer. I was under the impression that it wasn't that hard to get a
> license to distribute DOS with your software,
 
Which means Apple said OK to everyone who asked to distribute DOS with
their software, and didn't care about those who didn't ask?
 
> but it was to be made perfectly clear that you weren't to use DOS for
> any other purpose than to run that piece of software.
 
Hmmm, interesting.... so legally the user was required to do a reboot
each time the user switched to another piece of software on the Apple II,
unless he had booted from the original DOS diskette?
 
Did Apple have any plans on how to enforce this rule to be obeyed?  <g>
 
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