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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
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Subject: Re: StuffIt in the trash!
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Date: 19 Sep 90 23:54:46 GMT
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In article <6288@spt.entity.com> mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) writes:
>Aladdin's net rep said that Aladdin considers the format proprietary,
>and indicated that at least for the present he doesn't see them
>publishing it.

Who said anything about publishing?  I didn't.  I said that it was
quite conceivable that Aladdin would be happy to allow people to
do other platform developement without any large licensing fees,
just a non-disclosure agreement from the developer.  Simple enough.

>But, you miss the point here.  All this talk about what Aladdin might
>or might not do is not relevant.  What if they change their mind
>later?

Ok, what it?  What if Aladdin says, "Great, Marty...that would be fine
if you write a unsit for UNIX environments."  Fine.  You write it,
release it, and then 6 months down the line they change their mind.
It's already distributed.  You going to delete your copy and ask
everyone to delete theirs?  I wouldn't delete my copy.
Chances are, they wouldn't change their mind.  If they did, who
cares?  It won't make a difference...

Ken



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