Technically no, you do not own the rights to any software you may buy or
receive unless otherwise stated. And I would imagine if you are not the
original user of the Newton then it is piracy and the fact that Apple still
sells the software, says a lot also.
on 08/01/2000 04:34 PM, Bob Dawson at bdawson@tl.com wrote:
> I don't believe it would be piracy as Apple shipped a set of disks for each
> Newton, right? If you own a Newton, by my logic, you own rights to NCU as
> well, since NCU is useless without a Newton. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> --bd--
>
> Bob Dawson
> Prepress Director
> TL Enterprises, Inc.
> "Recreation At Its Best"
> Ventura, CA
> (805)667-4397
>
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: Peter Apockotos
>> Reply To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2000 1:25 PM
>> To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
>> Subject: Re: NTLK Looking For NCU For Mac
>>
>> You can purchase NCU from Apple otherwise it would be priacy!
>>
>> on 08/01/2000 03:16 PM, Arno Uhlmelmahei at arno@panix.com wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Dawson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean "expired"? I have the original floppies and actually
>>>> installed NCU on a Mac fairly recently...
>>>
>>> I gave my original disks to the buyer of my
>>> spare newton, d0h! I downloaded ncu1.0b5 from
>>> ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/newton/mac-stuff/
>>> but after installing it gave me a 'expired'
>>> window and exited.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Arno
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