Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!csuwr From: csuwr@warwick.ac.uk (Derek Hunter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Acorn's senseless exploitations (was: PlaceIt 1.10) Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 14:57:00 GMT References: <6642@acorn.co.uk> Sender: news@warwick.ac.uk (Network news) Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: lily In article <6642@acorn.co.uk> bcockburn@acorn.co.uk (Bruce Cockburn) writes: [About software writers who use predated modules] I certainly fully agree with Bruce's comments. I must admit that I'm more of a consumer than a producer, but what I have written does only use RISC 2. Can't Acorn do something about this specifically? How about a clause to forbid software issues which use the newer modules? I doubt they have issued upgrade ROMs yet, so to test them, vendors only need use those modules in RISC 2 anyway. (ie RMEnsure only those in ROM/!System on App1, or the bugfixes given away free.) If anyone has 'lost' their App1 orginals, the higher versions should still work anyway (Isn't that what RMEnsure was for anyway? Not simply to check whether the modules were in there at all?) Maybe the clause is in there anyway, and I suppose it's only really the PD fraternity which causes this problem since the commercial bunch will have a license to distribute the new modules. At the moment, some of my copies of the newest modules are living in a !Ularn application. Makes some amusing requests appear from time-to-time. Personally, (and in particular), I am not going to bother using MessageTrans, even when in ROM, until Acorn get their advertising policy sorted out and visibly do some in non English-speaking countries. (Depression problems accepted.) - Derek Hunter .-------------------------------------------------------------. | Where have all the lexemes gone? // Long time parsing . . . | `-------------------------------------------------------------'