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From: DN5@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Apple Associate or Partner?
Message-ID: <89264.143608DN5@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 21 Sep 89 18:36:08 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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I am addressing this question to the Apple Developer Group, or
anybody who deals with them regularly.

I am a programmer for the Computer Based Education Laboratory at Penn State,
and we develope courseware for the students to use.  Much of our development
is for the Mac.  We have an application for developer status, and I am a bit
puzzled by the difference between Associate and Partners.  The biggest
difference (to me) is that Associates do not seem to be able to get
technical help over AppleLink.

To me, this is the most important thing.  If I run into problems, it can save
many hours of my time to be able to talk to somebody who really knows MacApp.

On the other hand, we are a University, and we are not in the business of
software publishing.  I know that our software WILL be used at other
universities, but I have no idea of any marketing plans.  This, it would
seem, would disqualify us from Partner status.

If I recall, there was a similar complaint at the Bash Apple session at
MacHack.  This policy seems to hurt educational and smaller software
developers.  The software we work on at CBEL may be used by tens of thousands
of people, but the way the form reads to me, this doesn't seem to matter.

If somebody could reply with a clarification of what services I can expect
as an Associate or a Partner, I would be grateful.  Hopefully I just misread
the pamphlet.

                         D. Jay Newman
                         Computer Based Education Laboratory
                         The Pennsylvania State University
                         (814) 863-1654
                         dn5 AT psuvm.psu.edu