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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: BackSpace/NextWorld
- Message-ID: <2lqyhyr@rpi.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:40:11 GMT
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- maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi) writes:
- > nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu (Nicholas Weaver) writes:
- > > The result was that NeXT requested the removal of BackSpace, and
- > > the author, Samuel G. Strepper, complied. Actually, BackSpace
- > > shouldn't have been released in the first place, upon afterthought,
-
- For the specific case of Backspace, I most heartily disagree with the above
- sentiment. Screen-saving is something that should be left to some common
- format, instead of the Pyro/After-Dark/Dark-Side-of-the-Mac scenerio. No
- one will buy a NeXT to run the screen saver, and yet everyone who does buy a
- NeXT will need a screen saver (not the tame little screen dimmer stuff).
-
- > > and all PD/Shareware releases by NeXT employees need to now be
- > > cleared by NeXT before doing so. Just common sense. NeXT
- > > employees should not undercut developers needlessly.
-
- However, I'd agree that this is probably a good thing. There are not many
- catagories where I'd feel comfortable about NeXT employees competing with
- NeXT developers...
-
- > Now let me get this straight; what this policy means is that NeXT
- > employees will now have to release public domain stuff under "pen
- > names" unnafiliated with NeXT?
-
- It doesn't *have* to mean that, but on the other hand what do you find
- objectionable about the above? If all you want is good code to share, then
- you should not care if it comes from a NeXT employee or from
- John_Doe@anonymous.com. And, on the flip side, developers don't have to
- worry that some product will have an unfair advantage simply because it has
- the word "NeXT" loosely associated with it.
-
- > Isn't the whole idea of object oriented programming for all of us
- > to be able to share code?
-
- Last I checked, NeXT ships systems which include examples of object oriented
- programming. This should be good enough to get us sharing code. If we
- don't, then it's our fault. We can't expect NeXT to write every bit of code
- that we need for every possible application.
-
- And now, for the most important line of this article:
-
- Followups to csn.advocacy...
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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