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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: 19 Sep 90 13:19:52 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.021828.1904@slum.MV.COM> laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal) writes:
>If we begin to use the Deluxe format, I must discard those tools and get
>by without any replacements.  Any [de-]compression must then take place on 
>the Macintosh.  I presume that Alladin would not license the file format
>without compensation, i. e. payment, and that any utility to decompress a
>Stuffit Deluxe file would be distributed in binary, not source.  That just
>would not help me - things are very non-standard here.

This entire thread is getting plain irritating.  Everyone is talking about
"ifs" and "presumes."  Is there anyone who has even bothered to do any
research like call Alladin and ask about other platform development?

Alladin might charge you.  That would stink and certainly lend strength
to the argument not to switch.

Alladin might ask you to sign a NDA and give you the file format so
you can develop whatever you want.  That wouldn't be much of a problem.

Ken


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