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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: StuffIt in the trash!
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.182943.22627@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 4 Sep 90 18:29:43 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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One other thing that no one has mentioned yet about StuffIt is its history!

I'm not sure of exact dates here, but I got my Mac SE exactly 2 years ago,
and StuffIt 1.5.1 was the current version at the time....Now almost
2 years later we have StuffIt 1.6 and StuffIt Deluxe....Thats TWO FRIGGING!
YEARS WITHOUT AN UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To me, thats a totally unacceptable time to go without any updates whatsoever!
Especially since StuffIt was severely lacking in features <needed! features,
such as the ability to peek into folders and extract selected files!>
And now that some serious competition is nipping Ol' Ray in the buttski, he
finally gets off it and does something about it!   
I refuse to support any company/individual that practices in this manner!

I also agree with the people who are saying 'no commercial software should
be used to archive the software on public access sites'.   I think its
rather hypocritcal to be supporting the free distribution of software,
the shareware and freeware world, then using a commercial program to
distribute it with! Especially since there is a quite acceptable alternative!

As for its proprietary format: someone said that it will be given away, they
just want to know who has it...How do they expect that?   What about all
these Unix machines that need the source code in order to make the binary?
Or is Alladin planning on keeping around binaries for every flavour of CPU
and operating system that someone might want to run it on?

Charles