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HEY POWERCAT!!

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Contributed by: boskab Saturday, October 25 2003 @ 05:02 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

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I guess you havent read any info on Panther, but it's a new version, no upgrade, so you have to BUY it!!!!....did you really think that going from 10.2.x to 10.3 that you could just download it for free??? that's never been like that with MacOS system software.......

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HEY POWERCAT!! - brossow

Umm ... 7.0 to 7.1 was free. 7.5 to 7.6 was free. 8.0 to 8.1 was free. 8.5 to 8.6 was free. 9.0 to 9.1 to 9.2 were all free. WTF are you talking about? Things changed with OS X, where each 0.1 was a paid upgrade (and this IS an upgrade, onctraray to what you said; what you probably meant was that it's not an update.) Almost certainly, the reason Apple has done this is to maximize the amount of time they can use the OS X moniker along with the 10.x version designation. If they had followed past practice with version numbering, 10.3 would likely have been 11.0. You need to get your facts straight before you criticize others.

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Saturday, October 25 2003 @ 06:39 AM PDT

HEY POWERCAT!! - The Prairie Prince

Au Contraire mon cat.
All Apple system software used to be free. You obviously have arrived of late. Back in the 80's and early 90's it was all gratis.

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Saturday, October 25 2003 @ 07:59 AM PDT

HEY POWERCAT!! - brossow

That's not true at all! You're as wrong as he is. 7.0 was a paid upgrade from the 6.x line. 7.5 was a paid upgrade. 8.0 was a paid upgrade, and so on. Some of the earlier operating systems have now been posted for free download from Apple (7.5.5 and earlier) but the others are still not free except for the incremental updates (9.0 -> 9.1 -> 9.2, for example.)

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Monday, October 27 2003 @ 08:13 AM PST

HEY POWERCAT!! - Major Nice

One word, about the upgrades always having being sold, dude: Wrong.

System software used to be free as free could be. You're obviously one of the "New Apple Converts/Buyers", of the last couple of years.

There's still a lot of us out here who use the OS9/previous versions, as there is a heck of a lot of software over the years that has proven so useful to many businesses, that won't work on OSX's "fake 9". Also a lot of us out here who still have late 80's/early 90's machines doing wonderful jobs, still, on some of that older software (got a few machines running 7.1.3/7.5.5 still, here. Wonderful routers... Apples just keep going and going...)