chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [If Microsoft purchased Apple, what would happen to Emailer?]
Actually, it can.Well... it can't get any deader than it is now.
Under the terms of the Windows XP Professional licensing agreement, Microsoft reserves the right to "automatically check the version of the Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer."
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/02/08/020211opfoster_1.html>
If Microsoft added this same functionality to the MacOS and one of those automatic "fixes" managed to make Emailer unusable -- a product which had been end-of-life'd several years earlier, and was no longer supported -- it would most certainly be deader than it is now.
Of course, this is just idle speculation. Microsoft is not purchasing Apple, and I don't think we need to waste any bandwidth debating the evils of Microsoft or its licensing agreements. I just wanted to point out that there are worse fates for Emailer, and we're rather lucky that Emailer continues to function so long after its final update. Kudos to Apple and the MacOS X team.
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