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Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs?

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On 2013-11-05 21:44:05 +0000, Alan Browne said:

> On 2013.11.02, 12:17 , Alan Browne wrote:
>> 
>> I got the iWorks apps when I DL'd Mavericks on my new iMac.
>> 
>> Is it legal to copy (and use) them on my older Macs (also running M'icks)?
>> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Dave, nospam and Michelle for your replies.

I did note that on my machine running ML, the App Store
wanted me to pay for iWork (even though I had the older ones already 
installed).

As soon as I updated to Mavericks, the App store recognized my existing copies
and offered me the new ones for free.

I suppose I could have tried copying them from one of my Mavericks machines
over to one of my ML machines, but I didn't.

I just ended up updating all my machines to Mavericks and d/ling the newer
iWork apps via the app store.

It's been a very smooth upgrade to Mavericks - at this point, no issues
for me at all other than a quick hiccup when Crashplan required me to 
re-install
Java.  Re-installed, restart CP and everything else is working without any
hitches at all.

I'm not thrilled with the new iWork apps.  The "simplified" interface 
loses a lot
in my opinion.  And they've modified the functionality of some of the formulas
in Numbers (to behave more like Excel, actually).

But I went ahead and am converting things over as I use them.  
Eventually I'll have to,
so might as well embrace them now. Even with the worsened interfaces, I 
still like
them better than the MS products (which I use when I need to, too).

Thread

Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-02 12:17 -0400
  Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? David Fritzinger <dfritzin@nospam.mac.com> - 2013-11-02 12:44 -0400
  Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-11-02 12:47 -0400
  Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-11-02 16:32 -0700
  Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-05 16:44 -0500
    Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-11-05 18:03 -0800
      Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-06 16:53 -0500

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