Even Apple uses pirated tools

>>> WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE APPLE II ROUND?
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~ 1. September 1994 ~
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Real stories
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from Dean Esmay [SYNDICOMM]

I have never told the story publicly, but I think it's so long ago, and interest in Apple's Apple II is behind us, so what the hell.

Several years ago, we have a license to distribute DOS 3.3 Master on-line, which we had previously had. All disks have been sent to us directly from Apple's licensing.

So a very nice package from Apple with a white disk envelopes and labels, and so on. And so that everything is kosher, I run the main system, which they sent us.

Well, it boots to DOS 3.3 ... and when the old copy of locksmith, an ancient Pirate Favorites in the heady days of the world DOS 3.3 Apple II.

Really I'm not kidding. I carefully looked at the drive and that's all it was ... a copy of the locksmith. On a write-protected disk marked, Apple Apple sent directly to us.

Doubly funny is that the original locksmith was protected against copying, it means that somewhere in the history of the company Apple, someone's "solved" or accepted a pirate copy.

When we do, we realized that these people had no idea what the hell they're doing when it came to the Apple II. So we silently uploaded another copy of the draft, DOS 3.3 the system we had lying around, and it is, what is now the top of the A2.

I wonder if that disk? I'm sure it's somewhere buried in my huge collection of 5.25 floppy disk, the dust.

(A2.DEAN, CAT13, TOP12, MSG: 102/M645; 1)
reprinted from A2Pro Roundtable (October 8, 1993)