Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu!elk From: elk@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Edwin L King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Resedit Message-ID: <85644@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 5 Nov 90 04:18:03 GMT References: <10192@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Edwin L King Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 51 In article <10192@ur-cc.UUCP> esht_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eran) writes: >I am sorry but I just can not mail ResEdit to anyone anymore. I got >a message from someone at apple saying that Resedit is still >copyrighted and it is not legal for me to mail it. > >Sorry, >Eran Not directed at you, Eran, but that's about the most idiotic thing I've ever heard of. Was this person speaking on the authority of Apple or just blowing his/her own mouth off? ResEdit is available on CompuServe for anyone and his brother to download. It's not like it costs anyone anything other than online time. I've never met anyone who actually _paid_ for ResEdit. So who gives a damn if we pass it around via mail? If I were you, I wouldn't worry about it. Here is official notice from me: I will mail ResEdit to anyone who needs it. If some corporate pinhead at Apple wants to sic lawyers on me for distributing something that every Mac programmer and half the users have been passing around freely for years, then I feel very sorry for them. Violating a copyright that is putting food out of someone's mouth is one thing, but the situation with ResEdit is something else. If Apple really wants to enforce that copyright, they should stop posting it on Compuserve, establish a retail price for it (or perhaps there is one through APDA or something -- they surely haven't publicized it to the rest of the world), and make sure dealers have it in stock. Of course, the very existence of ResEdit makes it harder for third party Resource Editors like Resourceror to gain a foothold in the market -- it is comparable to the effect the bundling of MacPaint and MacWrite had on their competition in the earlier days. Of course, ResEdit is not bundled, but it is cheap or free and readily available, so why spend your money on something that already does an adequate job. Without ResEdit, I'm sure some third party would have come up with a really whiz-band resource editor by now -- one that would let you define the graphical interface for new TMPLs with a hypercard-like, button and text-box construction kit, and who knows what else. Boy I'm sure ramblin' on. Guess I'll quit. Heh, heh, just watch me cave in the first time I get a letter with Apple's legal department stationery on it! > >-- > > |\/\/\/| ____________________________________________ > | | / | > | (o)(o) / Eran Shtiegman |