Re: ProSel 8 and 16

["John E. Townsend" <utownje@lexis-nexis.com>]

Beverly and Chuck, I hope you don't take offense at this, because I
certainly don't intend any.  If you intend to keep your Y2K fixes to ProSel
as your own intellectual property, which is your right, you *have* to keep
them separate from ProSel itself, perhaps as a patch disk or something.  In
other words, you can't (or at least shouldn't) call the updated ProSel-16
version 8.90.

With ProSel in the public domain, suppose that I want to add some new
features to it and, through whatever version control process Chuck (or
whoever) establishes, we incorporate them into ProSel as version 9.0.  Just
from a practical point of view, users of ProSel should be able to expect
that version 9.0 includes all of the features and bug fixes in version
8.90.  Otherwise there is no version control, and we eventually have a real
mess on our hands.  And that's the best scenario; imagine what happens when
someone (ahem) decides to "improve" ProSel by sector-editing his name onto
the title screen and calling it version 9.0, including all of your Y2K
work.

Please, don't take us down that road.  Either keep your Y2K fixes as your
own intellectual property in a separate product, or release them to the
public domain as a new version of ProSel.  Thanks!

-- 
John E. Townsend
Sr. Software Engineer          "Machines should work;
LEXIS-NEXIS                     people should think."
Dayton, OH, USA                        -- IBM Polyanna Principle
utownje@lexis-nexis.com

A2MG <a2mg@aol.comNomail> wrote in article
<19990325160003.10907.00000015@ng90.aol.com>...
> The following items are shipping now. The ProSel disks are complete, made
from
> the actual current ProSel master disk - the complete, "real thing" from
> ProSel's management for over 10 years, Charlie's AppleSeeds. They contain
all
> the great ProSel utilities and accessories. The only difference is  that
the
> Volume Repair and File Finder sections are Y2K-compliant. 
> 
> ProSel-16 v8.90, complete. By Glen Bredon, updated for Y2K by TEXAS II -
> $10.00, $15.00 overseas. This disk is not public domain. 
> 
> Printed manual for ProSel-16 (recommended) - $13, $15 overseas. 
> 
> ProSel-8 v4.0, complete. By Glen Bredon, with Mr. Fixit v4.6 updated for
Y2K by
> TEXAS II - $10.00, $15.00 overseas. This disk is not public domain.
> Documentation is on the disk. Specify 3.5" or 5.25" .
> 
> Available from: 
> 
> Beverly Cadieux
> 2503 Sherbrooke Ln., McKinney, TX 75070 
> 
> For more information and other Y2K info visit http://members.aol.com/A2MG

> 
> Beverly Cadieux 
> Join the Apple II Mail Group at http://members.aol.com/A2MG
> 
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