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From: sam@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (was Re: Intuition's "don't mess with these" fields...)
Message-ID: <5643@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 20:40:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 20:40:55 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 04:44:00 EST
References: <1961@amiga.amiga.UUCP> <1825@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sam@utcsri.UUCP (Samuel Monk Weber)
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Keywords: This situation is making enemies of those who should be friends.
Summary: 

In article <3258@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>I suggest a two pronged approach.  First, CBM should make an effort,
>with malice aforethought, in each release, to break software whose
>disregard of standards causes problems like this.  The third or so
>complete rewrite of a major package should convince the bad guys to
>pay more attention to the rules.  This does require that releases of

I like this idea, but alas, I don't think it will work.  The result will
be rashes of programs that crash.  For some reason, the average guy on
the street does not seem to blame the program for crashing, but rather
the computer itself.  The Amiga had a bad reputation for crashing when
it first came out, even though the major problems were due to STUPID
programmers.  Let's face it, a lot of companies out there do not produce
very well written products.  Even something as simple as closing all
of your libraries after you are finished escapes many of them (Balance
Of Power opens the DOS library THREE more times than it closes it!!).
End result: LOTS of program crashes.
            Bad reputation for the Amiga
            Poor Amiga sales

Conclusion:  We will forever be in the position of trying not to hurt
    the people who purposely break the rules.  *sigh*
-- 
                              -Sam Weber
             "As long as people will accept crap, it will be
           financially profitable to dispense it" --Dick Cavett
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