kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) (12/30/90)
As far as I'm concerned, when people send submissions to the info-mac archives, they're doing it for the benefit of others. I'm certainly don't want to impose all these facist restrictions as to what format they have to use. Use whatever they normally use. Why force them to go to the trouble of compressing it with application xyz? What no one has mentioned so far, is that anyone who sends anything to sumex-aim, whether it be Compactor, StuffIt, or StuffIt Deluxe, is that they're expected to have paid the shareware fees to use the compression. If someone has shelled out the $20 bucks (or whatever) for Compactor, why make them pay for StuffIt? Sure, people will have to learn that .cpt means that they have to use Compactor or Extractor to uncompact it and that .sea means self-extracting archives, and that .sit means StuffIt. So what? Since when is learning something bad for someone? Ken -- Ken Hancock | INTERNET: kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu Isle Systems | Disclaimer: My opinions are mine, Macintosh Consulting | your opinions are yours. Simple, isn't it?
ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (12/30/90)
In <5181@husc6.harvard.edu> kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) writes: >I'm certainly don't want to impose all these facist restrictions >as to what format they have to use. Jag tycker att det ska vara samma sak med spr}ket. Varf|r ska vi ha denna anglosaxiska fascism n{r det g{ller spr}ket? Om jag har l{rt mig svenska s} ska jag f} anv{nda mig av det ocks}! >So what? Since when is learning something bad for someone? Kom igen nu, och l{r dig svenska! Det kan aldrig skada. mvh /Olle
Olle.Furberg@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Olle Furberg) (12/30/90)
Reply-To: ollef@sics.se In <5181@husc6.harvard.edu> kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) writes: >I'm certainly don't want to impose all these facist restrictions >as to what format they have to use. Jag tycker att det ska vara samma sak med spr}ket. VarfIr ska vi ha denna anglosaxiska fascism n{r det g{ller spr}ket? Om jag har l{rt mig svenska s} ska jag f} anv{nda mig av det ocks}! >So what? Since when is learning something bad for someone? Kom igen nu, och l{r dig svenska! Det kan aldrig skada. mvh /Olle + Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista -- Olle Furberg - via FidoNet node 1:105/14 UUCP: ...!{uunet!glacier, ..reed.bitnet}!busker!226!20!Olle.Furberg INTERNET: Olle.Furberg@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG
Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) (01/01/91)
In article <5181@husc6.harvard.edu> kenh@hscfsas1.harvard.edu (Ken Hancock) writes: > What no one has mentioned so far, is that anyone who sends anything to > sumex-aim, whether it be Compactor, StuffIt, or StuffIt Deluxe, is > that they're expected to have paid the shareware fees to use the > compression. If someone has shelled out the $20 bucks (or whatever) > for Compactor, why make them pay for StuffIt? Well, I don't know if I mentioned it explicitly, but this is certainly one of the reasons that using Stuffit 1.5.1 makes more sense. It's been around for a long time, and a load of people have *already* paid for stuffit. Not only that, but some of the other compaction programs know what to do with stuffit 1.5.1 files, so even if you have not paid for Stuffit then you still may have paid for something else which can handle Stuffit 1.5.1 files. Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu