Re: TASC (The Apple Soft Compiler)

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Nathan Mates wrote:
>Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>>Clayburn Juniel/Effective Software Solutions (clay1@primenet.com) wrote:
>>: If you pirate software for a machine that is no longer supported, that
>>: means you don't have to buy another one or the updated version of that
>>: software for the new computer.  So someone IS losing money.  That's
>>: capitalism.
>
>>By the same logic, if you write a bugfix for GS/OS, you're cheating Apple
>>Inc. because you're not buying the new and improved OS from them.
>
>   GS/OS was always copyrighted but free, so Apple didn't make a penny
>off upgrades. Also, Apple tended to both fix a lot of bugs and add new
>features in every System Software release; while any bugs may have
>been squashed by third party providers, I really don't see any third
>party addons of the caliber that'd become part of the next version of
>the OS.

Not totally correct, Nate.  Apple did sell packaged versions of GS/OS
that included manuals.  As always, these manuals were excellent and
many people opted for the full package (System 6 and 6.0.1 were about
$30).  Apple manuals are always a pleasure to read, even if the company
makes poor business decisions.

-Scott G.