Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: StuffIt in the trash! Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 90 14:40:21 GMT References: <1990Sep18.021828.1904@slum.MV.COM> <24394@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <6288@spt.entity.com> <24486@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu's message of 19 Sep 90 23:54:46 GMT >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. I don't think it is simple. How would you distribute it to a Unix machine without the sources? I do not want binary programs for the dozen different architectures we have here. If I can't get the sources, I personally don't want it. I don't mind buying a binary from a vendor that supports it. But then this is no longer an open standard, but a proprietary one. And yes, I install Stuffit/binhex files onto a AppleShare server without using a Mac. I don't want bulletin boards to use proprietary formats. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett