des7f@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (David Sappington) (05/06/90)
[discussion about APDA shipping MPW tools, compilers, etc. on CD-ROM]
[ more discussion about developers begin forced to buy unwanted ]
[ products just to get the CD-ROM. ]
Perhaps APDA should follow the lead of some commerical outfits that ship
(say) Postscript fonts on CD-ROM. In other words pack MPW, all languages
and related products, and anything else that they can think of (and fits)
on a CD-ROM. The catch? Encrpyt everything! (Well maybe not ResEdit and
stuff like that.) I'm not sure how they should handle decription/payment
but two approaches might be:
1) Ship a floppy with the CD-ROM that contains the decoding program(s)
for whatever the developer bought.
2) Ship the decoder on the CD-ROM but charge for the cypher keys. APDA
could include the appropriate keys on paper when they ship the CD-ROM
or perhaps give them out over the phone for credit card orders.
How about it APDA? Maybe someone should throw this to Apple's lawyers
and see what they think -- let them do something useful for once :-).
Dave Sappington des7f@virginia.edu
Institute for Parallel Computation des7f@virginia.bitnet
University of Virginiaphilip@goofy.Berkeley.EDU (Philip Machanick) (05/08/90)
In article <1313@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU>, des7f@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (David Sappington) writes: > Perhaps APDA should follow the lead of some commerical outfits that ship > (say) Postscript fonts on CD-ROM. In other words pack MPW, all languages > and related products, and anything else that they can think of (and fits) > on a CD-ROM. The catch? Encrpyt everything! (Well maybe not ResEdit and > stuff like that.) I'm not sure how they should handle decription/payment > but two approaches might be: Better idea: include everything on the CD ROM at a reasonably low price, and charge extra for the manuals. Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu