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- From: g92m3062@ru.ac.za (Brad Meier)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: What we need is a TPU to PAS convertor (Re: tpu files)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.170329.17596@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:03:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: hippo.1992Nov5.170329.17596
- References: <1992Nov3.163223.14041@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- Steve Madsen (sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu) wrote:
- : > WE NEED A .TPU TO .PAS convertor. Any brave sole wants to take on this
- : > almost impossible task? You will be the best programmer in the world if
- : > you can write such a convertor!
- :
- : Well, this isn't going to work for two reasons, and I'm sure that there
- : are some technical ones as well.
- :
- : 1. Personally, I don't want any .TPUs I distribute to be turned into
- : .PAS files. There are all sorts of reasons for this, including a package
- : falling into the shareware category or people who just don't want others to
- : have their source. Whoever writes a TPU2PAS program is going to piss a lot of
- : people off. What kind of incentive will "register and I'll send you the source
- : to this unit" be after a program like this exists? It will kill shareware in
- : the programming tools department as we know it. Timo doesn't even sell his
- : units, but he doesn't want people having his source, and that's his right. You
- : can't take that away from him.
- :
- : 2. This builds on 1. Some shareware that I've seen has a little
- : disclaimer on it that reads (something like) "it is illegal to disassemble or
- : otherwise reverse engineer this program." If a program you TPU2PAS has this
- : little notice on it, you've broken the license agreement and (I assume) can be
- : sued by the author, provided he finds out about it.
- :
- : I think number two is why it hasn't already been done.
- :
- : Plus, if someone *wants* you to have the source to some unit, it will
- : be included with the unit itself.
- :
- : --
- : Steve Madsen
- : Miami University Oxford, OH
- : Internet: sjmadsen@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
-
- What about the NOT SO PORTABLE TPU's... some authors just vanish without a
- trace and then you sit there with Turbo Pascal vX.X unable to use the units
- that you loved and used?
-
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