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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ResEdit 2.1 & ResEditFixer:  summary (?)
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.201415.6622@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 20:14:15 GMT
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In article <1990Dec18.065346.7002@wpi.WPI.EDU> macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg) writes:
>In article an Greg@AppleLink.apple.com (Greg Marriott) writes:
>
>>Yea, don't you just *HATE IT* when companies don't distribute free 
>>software fast enough...
>
>I didn't mean it like that... Apple distributes Resedit for FREE and I
>*appreciate* that. If it were a commercial product, i would likely buy it.
>As being a frequent Mac user, I've become attached to Resedit... it's
>probably my most frequently used program.
>
>So what's my problem? My problem is that developers and user groups can just
>dial up Applelike NOW and download the RELEASE version of Resedit. It's
>not even beta. This is it. This is 2.1.
>
>Yet there are many of us here on the net that simply want to get our hands
>on it, just like we did with Resedit 2.0b2... yet, we're stuck without it
>for perhaps a month because Apple's not going to get around to saying it's
>okay to put it up for FTP, or for download on AOL...
>
>If I sound like i'm slamming the people that work at Apple, i'm not... or
>i'm trying not too... i'm just expressing my feelings toward the delays,
>which probably are shared by some others on the net.

Consider this a slam against someone at Apple:  America OnLine, CI$, GEnie,
and various users groups and bulletin board have PAID for licenses to
distribute ResEdit-- Apple sure DOES owe it to them to get it to them.
(In my more cynical moments, I think they are deliberately delaying releasing
it electronically until the first of the year, so they can be assured of
more license fees.)
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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