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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: CBM's Blessing?  Give me a break...
Summary: CBM's blessing can be very important.
Message-ID: <7149@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 09:19:12 GMT
References: <7038@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: onhigh!oracle
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Quote: "Hope is very dangerous."  -- Servalan

In article <7038@gryphon.CTS.COM> mriley@pnet02.cts.com (Mark Riley) writes:
>papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>> If you do
>> thing on your own, without CBM's blessing you are simply bound to failure.
>
>I think my subject line says it all...
>
	Mark, I just don't understand why you're so hostile toward CBM's
tech group.  Consider:

	o I don't use shell enhancement tools because they're non-standard.
	  Developing software for the masses means testing it on a
	  vanilla system.
	o ARP is non-standard.  How many commercial houses do you know
	  (apart from MircoSmiths) that write code for it?  How many
	  run-of-the-mill people do you know who write code using it?
	o ARexx is non-standard.  While a nice package, its use is not
	  as widespread as it could or should be.

	Now, if CBM were to buy ARP and make it part of 1.4, then its use
would increase by a whole lot.  I am now prepared to use a shell enhancement
tool; namely, 1.3's shell.  Why?  Because it's standard.

	How many software developers do you think I would be able to
convince to use the iff.library Stu and I are working on in code for public
consumption?  Not as many as would use it if CBM "blessed" it.

	When CBM blesses something, you're guaranteed that all the users
will have access to the blessed thing, and can write supportable code around
it.  If the user calls and asks, "My program doesn't work," he won't be
terribly impressed if you start giving convoluted instructions for copying
the correct version of the arp.library into his LIBS: directory.  On the
other hand, if the user says, "My program doesn't work," you can ask, "Did
you delete the iff.library from your Workbench LIBS: directory?"  "Yes, I
did."  "Well, put it back; it needs it."

	Having CBM bless things relieves you of a great deal of support
responsibility.  If you want to do something, and it's blessed by CBM, then
you are clean.  If it's not blessed, You Are On Your Own.

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