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From: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BlitzFonts query reply (and executable)
Message-ID: <6615@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 18:00:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.6615
Posted: Thu May 14 18:00:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 12:08:39 EDT
References: <6555@amdahl.amdahl.com> <3061@well.UUCP>
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: unnecessary, unfair, secrecy, CIA, FBI, NSA...  oops!

In article <3061@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> 
> 	However, if you look closer, you'll notice that there's one thing he
> won't provide you with:  SOURCE CODE!!!

Couldn't agree with you more, Leo, and just to clarify one thing, I would
NOT have posted this for that very reason if I had been able to find a path
back to the person who emailed me the question in the 1st place.

On the other hand, and to Hayes' credit, he *did* send out a reasonable
"upgrade" to his program, so I can't fault him there (alas, no sources
though, but since it's in assembly, one can always use a disassembler to
get some pretty good insights into the methodology ... I know, I know,
that *is* a painful process ...)

To the "shareware" authors out there ... if you really want to get people
to "register" with you, you *must* give some "value added" to encourage
people to do so.  On a large application, this can be in the form of more
complete documentation (a la PC-Write, etc.), however SOURCE code is a *much*
more attractive incentive, as Leo mentions ... especially for small things
like BlitzFonts.

Finally, I just want to thank Leo for generously sharing his knowledge
freely with the rest of us, and for providing a garden of ideas with all
his display hacks, etc!  [I use a variation of "sunmouse", and often
times don't notice that one of the little robots has pushed my mouse pointer
up into the "menuclock" ... until after I've typed several lines of text
into the clock's window.  I grumble a little when that happens, and then
smile alot, and then swear to take "robotroff" out of my startup-sequence,
and then start to type the "kill" command ... but I never do ... ]

/kim


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