Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!husc6!spdcc!spt!mdc From: mdc@spt.entity.com (Marty Connor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe Summary: PUBLIC TOOLS FOR PUBLIC ARCHIVES Message-ID: <5193@spt.entity.com> Date: 30 Aug 90 18:38:42 GMT References: <1990Aug20.075638.3276@rbdc> <6257@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <2146@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1990Aug29.204448.23954@svc.portal.com> <5186@spt.entity.com> <11217@claris.com> Reply-To: mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) Organization: Hacks 'R' Us, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 In article <11217@claris.com> drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) writes: >When I worked at JPL we referred to people who dug their heels in against >change and enhancement because there was some cost in time, effort, or dollars >to convert "dinosaurs". And here in Cambridge "we" call people who spend all their time in front of computers and can't seem to think about people who don't without confusion and disdain, "technodweebs". But, hey, what's in a name? Look, maybe you think it's always progress for companies to own what used to be free. Maybe you just decided it was easier to work for a company and let the company take care of you, and not have to worry about things outside the debugger. Fine. But when I need Alladin's Secret Decoder Ring to get stuff from a PUBLIC ARCHIVE, Damnit, I say enough. As I said before. I am opposed to people loading files onto public archives in proprietary formats. Alladin's and other people's. Can you deal with that? -- 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