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Subject: Re: Online Help
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 08:55:03 +1000
From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
Precedence: bulk
Andre Willey wrote:
>In-Reply-To: <9407150009.AA18828@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
>In <9407150009.AA18828@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, warwick@cs.uq.oz.au wrote:
>
> > Anything but Freeware cannot be supported by a standard (hehe... unless
> > it's made by MicroCruft).
>
>OK, remind me not to support Magic, Geneva, MultiTOS, SpeedoGDOS...
>... need I say more?
That is different. If you wrote code that REQUIRED the use of one of these
programs, then you make yourself dependent upon them. GDOS is the classic
example of this: it was not freely available from Atari, so few programs
used it, until the AMC version appeared and popularised it.
Need I say more?
--
Warwick