Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs? Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:03:40 -0800 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1383703418 23316 127.0.0.1 (6 Nov 2013 02:03:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 02:03:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.10 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:19270 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).