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- From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
- Subject: Re: Registered Apple Developers?
- Message-ID: <9vrnrx=.mspace@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 17:34:35 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Tim.Waire@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Tim Waire) writes:
- >SoftArc has a gateway toolkit that helps to develop gateways to other systems
- >for expanded connectivity (Fax, Internet, MS-Mail, etc). Since FirstClass does
- >not currently have a gateway that can import/export mail with FidoNet I offered
- >to write one. What I proposed was a gateway that would merely read and write
- >files in the format required by Tabby, the current defacto FidoNet mailer for
- >the Mac. Tabby could then run in the background.
-
- >Anyway, it turns out that since SoftArc is a registered Apple developer, they
- >insist that anyone who develops gateways with their toolkit be a registered
- >Apple developer.
-
- >The big question, how does a pion like me with a home brewed BBS inexpensively
- >become a registered Apple developer to write a simple gateway product for a
- >BBS?
-
- As Brian Bechtel pointed out, give Apple a call for the fine print. You
- will likely want to become an associate, which costs roughly $350/year.
-
- The bigger question sis *why* does SoftArc have this requirement? You would
- think they would want to make it easy for third party developers to write
- gateways.
-
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