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From: ksand@appleoz.oz.au (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Virtual Finder
Message-ID: <917@appleoz.oz.au>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:49:20 GMT
References: <104700068@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: ksand@appleoz.oz.AU (Kent Sandvik)
Organization: Cyberspace Networking Group, Apple
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gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes in article <104700068@p.cs.uiuc.edu>:

           The most powerful applications will have a "VirtualFinder -
      Friendly" bit set, which indicates that the application understands
      all the new features in virtualfinder, and has been rewritten to
      handle them.  Most existing Multifinder programs will break or cause
      problems under virtual finder.  The Apple "Programmer's Guide to
      VirtualFinder", 96 pages of critical technical details, will be
      available 6 months after system 7.0, at a cost of only $100 to
      certified developers.  As usual, non-certified developers will be
      prohibited from obtaining this documentation.

Stuff as this is never needed, as long as programmers conform to the rules
defined in Inside Mac and additional Tech Notes. It's like programming
other systems, if you cheat, you get into trouble later. I hope that 
restrictive programming is done in the Mac community, because if this is
done a lot of trouble is avoided.

It seems like the worry is not ot have access to the latest interfaces
for System 7 programming. Well, there's always the possibility to become
a registered programmer if you have a good idea. It is the product and 
the ideas that count.

      In a related note, Apple has announced that it has acquired MacTutor
      magazine in order to enlarge the staff of its new _d e v e l o p_
      magazine, which is only for privileged Apple developers.  Apple's head
      of user documentation, Bruce "blood sucking" Leach, was quoted as
      saying,
      
        "These small-time developers are ruining the Macintosh Interface.
        Therefore, we have decided to close the macintosh software
        architecture to poor programmers.  They say that, to get in the mood
        for photography, you must burn a $100 bill.  Well, we here at Apple
        say, "To get in the mood for Macintosh programming, you're gonna hafta
        burn a $1000 bill."  We never intended for mom & pop operations to
        program the macintosh, and we apologize to our users for this lack of
        vision."

Hmm, compare the Apple Developer program with the one on the PC side, hey
there is none for the PC programmers... And if you want to become an OS/2
developer, you need even more cash.

/ksand



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