Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!mintaka!spdcc!spt!mdc From: mdc@spt.entity.com (Marty Connor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe Summary: BOYCOTT STUFFIT DELUXE Message-ID: <5186@spt.entity.com> Date: 30 Aug 90 02:38:35 GMT References: <1990Aug20.075638.3276@rbdc> <6257@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <2146@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1990Aug29.204448.23954@svc.portal.com> Reply-To: mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) Organization: Hacks 'R' Us, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 In article <1990Aug29.204448.23954@svc.portal.com> leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes: > ... >The only problem, that I can see, with the new file format >is that it is proprietary which means that it will more difficult to write >'Unstuffers' for other platforms - though Aladdin has offered to work with >developers on such projects! I strongly favor a BOYCOTT of STUFFIT DELUXE[TM] for the purposes of distributing software until such time as their format is public domain, and it has at least been decided that it can be implemented efficiently on other platforms. The current situation is just a cheap way for Alladin and Raymond Lau to try and pull off another defacto standard under the guise of being nice guys. Let's keep using a format that is known and usable, and send a message to Ray and Company that this game of getting people hooked and then charging them is NOT ACCEPTABLE for the distribution of software in public forums. I welcome discussion of this topic by other members of the Macintosh Community. -- Marty Connor, Marty's Computer Workshop, "Specializing in Macintosh Training" 126 Inman Street, Cambridge, MA 02139; (617) 491-6935 mdc@entity.com, or ...{harvard|uunet}!mit-eddie!spt!mdc