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From: allen@viewlogic.com (Dave Allen)
Subject: Re: porting TADS to other platforms
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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 19:46:32 GMT
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Matt Ackeret (unknown@apple.com) writes:

> Even though it would be much more difficult, there are people out here
> (such as myself) who are interested in porting TADS to other machines. Mike
> Roberts doesn't appear willing to have it ported (with full non-disclosure
> and all that jazz) to other machines..  The strange thing about that is
> that he has absolutely nothing to lose and at least a bit to gain... Other
> people would be doing the work of porting, and he and third party TADS
> developers have a larger potential base.  It's a win all around.

Of course he has something to lose: his time.  As part of my job, I
release executables and, occasionally, source, to customers.  The drawback
to releasing source is that customers modify it, get confused, and call me
up.  I spend a lot of time helping customers undo damage they have done to
source code.

Personally, I would prefer to see Mike working on new features in the TADS
engine (like validIoDo :-) rather than answering questions about portability
from people who use less common operating systems which he has no access to.
I have been in that position and it's very time consuming.

- Dave Allen: allen@viewlogic.com
