Re: TASC (The Apple Soft Compiler)

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5ke7vp$94b$2@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
Tilghman Lesher <NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> 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.

Nathan Mates
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