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From: viking@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: New MacApp Features
Keywords: What do you want?
Message-ID: <25749@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 8 Sep 89 23:21:51 GMT
References: <34594@apple.Apple.COM> <3901@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: viking@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <3901@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jnh@ecemwl.UUCP (Joseph N. Hall) writes:
>In article <34594@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes:
>>
>>Hello, folks,
>>MacApp 2.0b9 is the last release of MacApp before we go final with 2.0. After
>>that, we'll be working full steam ahead on the next version of MacApp. What
>>I'd like to know is what people would like to see in it. Any good ideas?
>> 
>Well, for one, NO ANNUAL LICENSING FEE would be nice.  Then I might actually
>buy it.
>
>Sorry, but this is one "software development tax" that really irks me.

Isn't the licensing fee required only if you *sell* your program?  If
so, it's still a pain for perspective MacApp programmers, but I would
hope you aren't tagged for an annual fee just to *use* MacApp. 

On a similar subject, what are the licensing rules for giving away a
copy of MIDI Manager and PatchBay with your freeware utility?

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