Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!alonzo
From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: The HP 48 Programmer's ToolKit (review, long)
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Date: 3 Oct 90 15:33:06 GMT
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madler@piglet.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
> So am I off base in my initial gut reaction to seeing a member of the HP-48
> team selling machine language tools, competing with other after-market
> software developers for the HP-48?

I don't really understand the whole concept of unfair competition in a free 
market economy.  Perhaps you would do better to think of this product as 
coming from HP, who happen to give its author a royalty.  The effort required 
to educate the world at large to Mr. Donnelly's level of expertise would be 
enormous.  Using that as an excuse to deprive us of his extracurricular 
contributions to the 48 is counterproductive.

It isn't that unusual for a manufacturer to have special relationships with 
certain OEMs or developers.  It may not be in the best interests of the
manufacturer, but I wasn't aware of any moral imperative.  

It seems rather silly for any after-market software developer to compete in
selling machine language tools when there is no official support.  Mind you,
the eventual fate of closed architecture machines is usually bad.