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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: FastEddie-2.2 editor demo posted to net.sources.mac
Message-ID: <2943@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 04:42:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 04:42:08 1986
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Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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An early version has been posted (too early??) to this group sometimes
last year.  A very early version of FastEddie was mercilessly critisized
in MacTutor but after many corrections and improvements, I believe, this
"Programmable Editing Environment" deserves another look.  I know
of no other editor for the Mac which comes closer to having "sex-appeal" to the
'hacking' user.

The author, Daniel Grossbard, is a starving artist and CS-grad-student,
and allows free distribution of a "castrated" version limited to handling
only small files, with the hope of finding approval and orders by mail
of the "unmangled" version at $48.  He is as little profit-oriented as
anyone I can think of, but needs some motivation ($$$ for food) to keep
improving FastEddie.  To motivate wide distribution, he provides each
registered user with a personalized demo-program for further distribution
and promises to return 33% of all proceeds to the owner of the registered
demo which result in further sales.  The demo prints out an order form for
you when using the "About FastEddie" menu-item under the Apple, which includes
the registered-owner's serial-number.

While the posted demo-version is registered to me, I would object to postings
on USENET with a direct personal gain like this going to the poster, including
myself.  Therefore, to avoid any misunderstandings, I told the author that
I do not wish to receive any benefits from distributing his program-demo,
period.  No matter how and where I pass on his demo.  That he can either
keep the $16(33% of $48), if in need, or pass it on to a charity, or return
it to the purchaser.  In this case, and possibly to set an example on how
to make distribution through USENET desirable and beneficial to USENET-users,
I invite you (should you decide to purchase FastEddie), to either make out
a check for $48 (if you are mostly concerned about the welfare of this
struggling hacker) to the author, or send him $32 with a reference to my
posting, indicating that you, like I, prefer not to receive any benefits of
distributing the demo, or include a seperate check for $16, made out to
your favorite charity and ask that Daniel get it there (and deduct $16
from your taxes (-:)

Did I manage to be fair to everyone? I sure hope you think so.

	Cheers,		---Werner

PS: Daniel can be reached on the net.  Mail to me and I'll forward.
	Can't post his net-address without asking first.