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Re: "Alice" program on BCS Disk #2

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From: Jim Budler
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1985 18:27
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In article <320@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA> tdn@cmu-cs-spice.ARPA (Thomas Newton) writes:
>What is the current legal status of the "Alice" program on Boston Computer
>Society disk #2?
>...
>In particular, is it appropriate to treat "Alice" like the Resource Editor
>(which can be passed around, put into libraries, etc.) or like MacTerminal
>(which can't be passed around, etc.)?

The program is very definately in the same category as the pre-beta and beta
MacTerminal and MacWrite.  In other words the release version is so 
much better that the pre-release version is not worth arguing about.

The legal status for all those is also the same.  Apple owns them.
-- 
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Subject: Re: "Alice" program on BCS Disk #2
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