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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How to know we are in TOS 1.0?
Message-ID: <1915@atari.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 19:47:38 GMT
References: <452@mirsa.inria.fr> <1903@atari.UUCP> <1989Dec21.120602.11181@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
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exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:

>In article <1903@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>> ["Become a registered developer and your road will be paved with gold."]

>Your mileage may vary on this one, depending on which Atari subsidiary
>you have to deal with.  I contacted Atari UK (some time ago, maybe I
>should try again) about the developers kit, and was told that in
>addition to the money I would have to inform them of my 'trading name',
>and would have to agree to keep them informed of what I was using the
>information to develop, so that they could ask me to stop if it
>interfered with their own internal or contracted-out development.

I find this appalling!  Please, people, if you've had this experience,
send me mail and I'll direct it to some people here.  I never knew that
becoming a developer meant Atari would try to stop you from doing
something!  (I can understand them letting you know what they're up 
to, to save you duplicating their effort, but not actually telling you
to stop!)

My appalled condition is personal, not corporate.  For all I know, this
might be Atari policy.  It is *certainly* Atari policy to let the
subsidiaries do whatever they want, but we can make suggestions.

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt