Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!husc6!unix!mxmora From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The situation on apple.com Message-ID: <23031@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 9 Apr 91 16:24:54 GMT References: <50204@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Mar13.230529.4948@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> <1423@radius.com> <5464@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> Reply-To: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 50 In article <5464@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> cs483106@umbc5.umbc.edu.UUCP (cs483106) writes: >In article francis@arthur.zaphod.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >>In article <1423@radius.com> lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes: >> >> This one is easy. Nobody said that all files had to be available via the >> usually ASSUMED _ANONYMOUS_ ftp. There's not really any reason why ftp >> couldn't have a list of logins for registered developers. That way, you >> >>Sounds reasonable--but don't developers have AppleLink? >> > >Registered developers(those of you who have lots of cash to spare) have >AppleLink, but I think he was suggesting it for us lowlier persons who have >trouble affording a simple APDA membership, let alone all the money a >certified developer pays out. I'm a registered developer (actually an lowly ol' peeon of a associate not a PARTNER). My company shelled out the bucks for me to become a asscociate but my org (group) can't afford for me to use applelink. It cost way to much for what you get. So I would like to see a way for me to download the newest resedit or technotes or whathaveyou. Either that or have the applelink charges dropped for certain file downloading. For some reason if your are a associate you are some kind of lower class citizen in apple's eyes. The prerequisite for becoming a partner is that you have to develop a commercial product. Even though the products I develop for my company will make my company buy more macs. They seem to think that in house developers don't need to know every thing that a commercial developer needs to know. One of the programs that I wrote has just been shipped to another company for them to publish it. I guess it was such a good in-house program that they thought that there is going to be a market for it. I have yet to get an invitation to the World Wide Developer Conference. Though apple claims that it is available to all developers. I guess thats enough apple bashing for one day :-) -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora | my Mac Matt_Mora@sri.com SRI International | my unix mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________