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From: bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Acorn's senseless exploitations (was: PlaceIt 1.10)
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Date: 24 Apr 91 11:14:39 GMT
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Kjetil,

  Althoug I may be biased towards Acorn (they pay my mortgage) I feel that
you have been unfair.  Why is Acorn being unfair when it makes new versions
of it's modules available?  Surely the people being unfair are those
thoughtless writers of PD and ShareWare software that taunt you with
programs that don't work on a standard RISC OS 2.00 machine.  It is their
use of modules, such as MessageTrans and SharedCLibrary that is unfair.

  Acorn does not force software vendors to use these modules, we do
recommend that they are used and yes we do charge a license fee for our time
and effort (we do have to make a living you know).

  You say that you have SharedCLibrary 3.50 which came as part of a software
package that you bought, this is good.  What software is it that you have
which needs a version more recent than this.  Surely it is this software
vendor who has "ruined the joy" for you?

  Bruce.