[G4] Updating to Panther Last?

[John Baltutis]

On 12/25/03, sr ferenczy <srf7425 at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> if you ignore meaningless numbers, and focus instead upon release
> dates, the OS 7-8 timeline really falls quite close to the os X
> timeline in regards to paid releases. (maybe apple just wants to keep
> os X around for a long while, thus they use all the 10.* combinations
> they can....
>
> Oct 1991   7.0  paid
> Oct 1992   7.1  paid
> Sept 1994  7.5  paid
> Jan 1997   7.6  paid
> July 1997  8.0  paid
> Oct 1998   8.5  paid
> Oct 1999   9.0  paid
> Mar 2001   10.0 paid (public beta)
> Oct 2001   10.1 paid (many consider first "real" os x)
> Aug 2002   10.2 paid
> June 2003  10.3 paid
>
> looks to me like apple has stayed pretty consistent in regards to paid
> updates, other than changing their numbering system....

And as seen on <http://www.resexcellence.com/index.shtml>:

Concerning paying for Apple's software updates, Joshua Ochs writes:

Based on their history, if it comes out over a year after the last major
upgrade, then it's valid to charge for it. Here's the history, folks:

7.0: paid (5/91)
7.1: free (8/92)
7.5: paid (6/95) (4 years, 1 month since last paid upgrade)
7.6: free (1/97)
8.0: paid (6/97) (2 years since last paid upgrade)
8.1: free (1/98)
8.5: paid (10/98) (1 year, 4 months since last paid upgrade)
8.6: free (5/99)
9.0: paid (10/99) (1 year since last paid upgrade)
9.1: free (1/01)
9.2: free (6/01)
10.0: paid (3/01) (1 year, 5 months since last paid upgrade)
10.1: free (9/01)
10.2: paid (8/02) (1 year, 5 months since last paid upgrade)
10.3: paid (10-03) (1 year, 2 months since last paid upgrade)

Happy holidays.