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- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:21:50 +0100
- From: Jan_Krutisch@digital.fido.de (Jan Krutisch)
- Subject: Re: >>>>>>> The Future: Amiga goes P
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- In a message of 09 Jan 96 Michael van Elst wrote to Stephan Schaem:
-
- MvE> From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
-
- MvE> sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem) writes:
-
- >> online manual thieve... where is the world commin too...
-
- MvE> The CD-ROM version of the RKRMs is no-where legally online.
-
- Well, after all, I think, he said ONLINE and he wanted to say AMIGAGUIDE (Well,
- it's kinda ONLINE...On his very own computer)
-
- But, huh, who cares about thieving the DOCS while they are unavailable. And,
- huh, maybe we will get them on CDR for a reasonable price in the short future,
- anyway. But maybe I'm just dreaming about a good world. Shit, I mean the
- fascination about the AMIGA is that there is soooo much GOOD Software available
- for FREE, because of the PD-Scene. And the PD Programmers need DOCS. And they
- have the bloody right to have DOCS. And if they can't get them legally,
- because THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE, they have to help themselves. And hey, the
- whole OFFICIAL FUCKIN' CERTIFIED DEVELOPERS thing is a bit of crap, because it
- creates a two class developers world. If I would be AT, I would handle it this
- way: Making ALL Information about the OS and Hardware available to anyone (On
- Paper AND as a CD...Maybe as a SET...) and updating it repeatedly via PD. And
- all the other stuff you can get as a CERTIFIED...like OS Betas and Hardware
- BETAS and stuff... just give it to a few WELL Known and famous Programmers from
- the companies and from the PD Scene. So you don't have to bother about this
- CERTIFIED shit. I mean AT would have to loose the DEVELOPERS FEE, but the
- financial balance of AT shouldn't rely on it, anyway... :)
-
- Making Information Available is sometimes quite dangerous, but I can't see any
- danger in this case...And it would surely give the PD Scene a positive kick,
- because there are a lot of programmers sitting at their AMI optimizing "Hello
- World" to death, just because they have no documentation and so they cannot do
- any OS stuff...
- Not to forget that the general safety of the OS would increase because more
- programmers would suddenly start to program using intuition.library and not
- programming by intuition. Some of the resident "Certified"'s here are always
- fast to point all the mistakes that we make and that we are dangerous because
- we do not obey the rules. But how should one obey the rules, if one don't know
- them. Making the GUIDE Version of the RKM's and the AUTODOCS available for free
- really could help, believe me. But, on the other hand...If this would happen,
- all the Certified's can't complain about broken rules anymore. C.S.A.P could be
- quite boring for them, then... :)
-
- -Jan "Nearly having the DOCS" Krutisch
-
- PS: This is not meant to flame any of the resident Certified AMIGA
- Developers. But sometimes I think they have a kindalike ELITE
- feeling...(In a very negative way...). As I said RTFM makes no sense if
- there are no FM's, OK ?
-
- PPS: Yeah, you guessed it. Uhhh, I'm illegal. But now I can start
- programming. Otherwise I would have occupied my fathers PC and would
- have started doing some fly PC-SHIT like my ASCII-Blaster-Project.
- Consider this a splat.
-
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