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In article <1993Jan20.172321.25003@news.nd.edu> jim@stargate.helios.nd.edu (Jim McCusker) writes:
>Potter:
>
> I DO have the Doc's for the CAPI, but it doesn't say anything about 
>assembling with TASM. (probably because of the age of the manual, it's about
>three years old now).  Anyway, the presumption of guilt on users asking
>questions that may be lumped into the RTFM category doesn't always mean
>that they aren't a valid owner of the API, so such snide remarks ought to
>be left out of this newsgroup. 

I DO HERE BY PUBLICLY APOLOGISE FOR THE ACUSATION. 

I didn't mean to acuse, only to question.  Though I realize how the message was
going to come across later that day after I sent it.  But it was too late to do
anything about it.  With the news feed we have, one looses control of a message
about two minutes after one posts.  I'm sorry the message was received that
way.  When you asked If I had the CAPI manual I just took it the wrong way.  I
tryed to word the message that maybe I'm miss understanding (which I was), but
it still was too acusatory.  I ment to only question, but still assume
inocence and answer the question as best I could (not very).  I sorry for the
message.

>(Anyway, QD could use as many developers
>as they can get,  developers usually translate into MULTIPLE customers)
>IMHO, companies like QD, M$, Borland should not make their development 
>products their cash-cows.

I agree, QD could use as much help as possible.  I agree that many companies do
seem to charge offly high prices for there development tools.  (There are some
notable exeptions:  QD resent lowering of the API toolkits.  QD release of the
DVX library of DJGPP to the public.  MS Windows NT SDK for $69 (Agreed the one
needs a lot of HW and it won't include the final compiler but its a good
start).  However I also can see some of these compainies point of view, in that
support for development tools is expensive (The only people how can support the
developement tools well are your developers.  However your developers call for
a high price tag and you want to have them work of developing).  QD however
falls down even more here, charging even more for support (and it an't cheep
for developers support).
					Potter
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