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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: StuffIt in the trash!
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Date: 5 Sep 90 13:41:22 GMT
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In article <1990Sep4.182943.22627@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) writes:
>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!

Yeah, except you're forgetting one thing.  Raymond Lau was in high school.
I hate to rain on your parades, but some things are more important than
making sure you get your updates.  Raymond saw a need for something
better than PackIt, so he did it.  He asked a measly 20 bucks for something
that has probably saved me countless hours and over $100 dollars in
downloading costs.  He isn't a professional software programmer, he's in
college now.  Maybe when he gets out, he'll have the time to dedicate
more time to StuffIt -- maybe it'll even become his profession.

I think it's pretty pathetic that everyone is sitting here whining
about the evils of the compression world, all the while sitting here
on our butts doing nothing about it.  Many of us are professional
programmers.  Many of us have had much more experience than
Raymond Lau.  But who was the one who sat down and did something?
It wasn't us (Bill Goodman excepted).

Stop moaning and whining.  If you want a standard just the way
you think it should be, then do it.  Write something better and
faster than StuffIt with just as many features.  Publish the
format.  Make it free.  Hey, I'll switch.  Until then, I'll go
with what I think is best.  Hopefully, places where I upload or
download from will do the same.  If they don't, then I don't have
to use their resources.

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