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From: heberlei@iris.ucdavis.edu (Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Apple code broken - pisses me off!
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Date: 9 Jun 89 15:23:10 GMT
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I have seen people in net-land mentioning the broken Apple code; now
Associated Press has picked up the story.  I too would like to see a
cheaper Macintosh, but...

Whoever did this really PISSES ME OFF!!  I think an organization
should benefit from their own R&D.  I fear if after a company puts
many man hours and lots of money into an R&D effort only to have other
companies copy it, fewer and fewer companies will invest into new
research.

======== a little personal history ===========
A couple of years ago, in an AI class, I started a long assignment the
day it was started, worked many many hours, and actually finished it
three days in advanced.  Someone I new was having trouble with a
function call, so I told him to look into my account (it was the last
assignment, so I didn't care about the account) to see how I had
done it; the function was only a few Lisp lines.  After the
assignments were turned in, I had a chance to look at them; it seemed
nearly all the programs that worked (it was a tough assignment)
consisted largly of my code-several didn't even bother to change the
comments!

I didn't care about the grade, but people taking advantage of my hard
work, without asking or saying thanks, really made me mad!

IF PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MAC'S POPULARITY (Don't forget
that Apple spent a lot of time and money making the Mac popular), LET
THEM WRITE THE CODE THEMSELVES!!!


Sorry, just had to vent some anger
-Todd