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

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  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

#19204 — Is it legal to copy 'free' iWorks apps to older Macs?

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)?

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#19206

In article <p9-dnYAVSLwRuOjPnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> 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)?

I believe it is. Certainly, when I installed Mavericks on my early 2011 
MBP, I was able to download the new iLife and iWork apps. Haven't tried 
on my iMac because for compatibility reasons, I need to stay on ML for a 
while (my version of EndNote and Acrobat don't run on Mavericks). Later, 
I may be able to replace EndNote with Papers, since it is able to format 
citations, but I haven't played with it yet to find out how it is done.

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#19207

In article <p9-dnYAVSLwRuOjPnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> 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)?

anything you buy on the app store is valid for all macs you own.

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#19212

In article <p9-dnYAVSLwRuOjPnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> 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)?

Yes.

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#19262

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.


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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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#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).

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#19288

On 2013.11.05, 21:03 , Bread wrote:
> 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 copied from the apps folder to the Public folder on my SO's MBA. (Was 
quite large for all 3 - about 1.4 GB IIRC).  I have a capped ISP plan, 
so I avoid DL's when I can copy.

> 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).

Except Numbers still does not have one of the most useful features of 
Exell ("Goal Seek") where you enter a desired end value and the 
designate a cell to change.  Excel attempts various solutions including 
iterative convergence.  This is useful in many cases.  (Pricing, profit 
analysis, ROI scenarios, many engineering uses and so on).

>
> 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).

I use MS Office most of the time for the simple reason that it is the 
lingau franca of my colleagues.  Pages is better in many respects, most 
esp. placing a figure in a document without fuss.


-- 
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
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