[softwarelist] Re: Paragraph Rules?

  • From: "Andrew Conroy" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:31:48 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, April 11, 2011 12:22 pm, David Pilling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message
> <27321.194.106.46.76.1302519605.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Andrew Conroy <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>The author says that he has all the source code to hand, he's just not
>>been very good at actually sorting through it to send it to us!
>
> Authors may worry about many things, are they going to get loads of work
> answering queries, are "things" going to be found in the source code,
> like bits of copyright code from Acorn.
>
> Maybe you should offer him an agreement, no questions and you take full
> responsibility for the consequences. Also might be worth pointing out
> that at this stage of the game no one cares. The days when Acorn waved a
> big stick are long gone.

I believe that we have done (I don't get involved in that side of things),
it's just that it's so far down his list of priorities that it never makes
it to the top of his things-to-do list :-(

Andrew

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