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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PkaWare/PkaZip
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Date: 4 Mar 90 01:01:11 GMT
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In <1247@mindlink.UUCP>, a112@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Bastow) writes:
>[...]  The writing of PKAZIP took a considerable amount of my
>time  and  expense.
>[...]
>Yet,  the  response  from the Amiga community in general has been
>one of discontent, criticism, paranoia, hysteria, misinformation,
>and  complaint.   I  have  just  spent a bunch of money to buy am
>Amiga  at  PKWARE  so  we  can fully support PKAZIP, yet with the
>registrations  received so far for PKAZIP, I can barely buy a few
>boxes of diskettes.

Here we go again. Is it paranoia, hysteria, or discontent to say "This program
has a flaw that will cause me not to use it."? Is it criticism to say that a
program is unusable to me because of that flaw? I sure won't use it unless I
can use it from a script, without having to manually intervene and muck about
with the mouse.

>If  this  is all the incentive there is for one to write software
>for  the  Amiga,  then  I think that ZIPWARP, CLI versions, AREXX
>interfaces  and  whatever other programs everyone wants but won't
>register  are  a  long,  long  way  off.  I have plenty of MS-DOS
>projects in the works which when they are released, won't slap me
>in the face.

If CLI versions, ie. versions runnable from a script, are a long way off, then
so is any registration fee from any but the most casual user of archivers, who
may or may not use the program enough to feel compelled to register anyway.

It's up to the author. He sets the conditions and writes the program. I choose
to not bother with it. Simple.

-larry

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