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From: thompsn@SouthBank.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacApp Licensing Fee
Message-ID: <624@SouthBank.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 15:55:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 15:55:13 1987
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Organization: South Bank Polytechnic, London, UK
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Summary: Apple is justified in charging this fee.



About the problem of a $100 licence ($10 if you are giving it away).

Larry, I for one would like to thank Apple for the MacApp product.  I have
been using MacApp for some two weeks now.  I have produced a couple of demo
applications (kinda feeling my way).  There is no way that I could have
done what I have done (albeit not much) in the time using conventional
development systems.

I saw Barry Haines (hope that is spelt right) of Apple Computer at an 
OOP conference in London.  He demo'd MacApp and a version 
of Smalltalk with MacApp in st-80.  Apple seem to have dedicated 
a lot of time and effort to MacApp and is, I feel, totally justified 
in protecting its property.

To the people that wish to criticise I ask you this:  $100 is not a lot to
pay for a development system with this much potential.  I have seen people
charging $1000+ for Lisp systems.  MPW + Object Pascal + MacApp is going to
cost around $400, which is what you would pay for an MS-Dos compiler.  Add the
cost of Windows development kit and you still dont get as much for twice the 
price (get as much for your money).

Pay the licence out of the money you save, and think of the time you
are going to save in the future.

Nick Thompson.


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