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- From: pete@eo11.eoc.com (Peter Cockerell)
- Subject: Re: Authorship (Was: Disasters?)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.005203.793@eoc.com>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:52:03 GMT
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- In article <9208210142.AA26159@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> lithgow@upjomon.usl.com (Malcolm Lithgow) writes:
- >[Stephen Burke says:]
- >>Going off on a tangent, why don't Acorn manuals have authors? I'm sure
- >>*someone* must write them; have Acorn marketing decided that we should see them
- >>as a faceless single entity, or are the authors just too ashamed to admit
- >>it? :-)
- >
- >It's probably just tradition.
- >
-
- It was at Acorn. When I worked at Acornsoft (RIP), the publications
- department always put manuals' authors' names in them. When I moved
- over to Acorn proper, this wasn't the case, so I never again saw my
- name in print on an Acorn manual. (I won't say which ones they were; it
- was all a long time ago, and I was only young.) I think it's a shame,
- especially as they used to put other people's names in ROM (do they
- still do that?)
-
- Pete
-
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