Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!jarthur!wilkins From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple should let us e-mail System 7 Message-ID: <12144@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 17 May 91 11:42:59 GMT References: <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu> <52962@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 26 In article francis@daisy.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >In article <52962@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes: > > Incidentally, I do know some of the people who tested third-party > applications for the compatibility checker. WHY the checker claims > that the info is supplied by the manufacturer, I dunno. Probably some > lawyer involved. > >Probably a dumb lawyer: if the information is wrong, and the >manufacturer is damaged thereby, Apple might be liable. Well, I do know that as an Apple Partner I've been showered with requests to send in compatibility information about the software I write so that it can be included in the compatibility checker stack. Probably it's a combination of both. After all, Apple can't check everything. -- Mark Wilkins -- ******* "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude!" ********** *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Mark R. Wilkins wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu {uunet}!jarthur!wilkins * ****** MARK.WILKINS on AppleLink ****** MWilkins on America Online ******