| From: | Staf Verhaegen |
| Date: | 13 Sep 2000 at 10:46:10 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Re: |
g'o'tz ohnesorge wrote:
>
> Claus Luethje wrote:
>
> > > To avoid companies doing so (perhaps under pressure from Redmond),
> > > there should be some way for the OS to _enforce_ the presence of
> > > .00 (VP) binaries in any installation archive. However I don�t have any
> > > way of enforcing this at hand.
> > Enforcing the presence of a .00 binary could be done indirectly be Amiga Inc:
> > they could refuse to approve software which doesn't include the .00 version.
> > This won't stop other companies from providing not portable version of their
> > software. (But it won't make much sense economically for them.)
>
> Something like that. There might also be a program to check whether there's a .00
> for everything in the system (with really scary error complaints each time one is
> missing ;) ).
Be careful, a lot of users will blaim the OS for such faults and not the
application programmers. So you can get a bad reputation that way.
Staf.
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