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In article <MWAUeBy00W0OQTs06J@andrew.cmu.edu> rj0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert George Johnston, Jr.) writes:
>    Dimmer is a nifty little cdev that will 'dim' a Mac II's screen after
>a specified length of inactivity similar to what the Lisa used to do. (Well,
>I guess it still does.)
>
>    In the cdev, it says "by Chris Derossi", and that's all. I would
>like to get in touch with the author of this thing. Does anyone out there
>know where I can find him?

A beta version of Dimmer was posted to comp.binaries.mac back in December or
so. That version was pretty buggy and had a built-in time bomb which caused
it not to work for many people. After a multitude of postings about it,
someone at Apple posted a message from Chris Derossi, who works there (in
technical support, I believe). The message may have even been posted by
Chris Derossi himself; I'm not sure. In any case, he mentioned that Dimmer
was going to be a commercial product and that it shouldn't be distributed.
Things cooled down for a while. Then, I noticed a version of Dimmer appeared
on a local BBS. After downloading it, I was amazed to discover it worked.
Hacking it with ResEdit, I found reference to a version number 1.0 in it.
Still unsure about its status, I asked Jeff Shulman (Delphi sysop, otherwise
known as "the human gateway") to query Mr. Derossi on AppleLink about it.
Derossi responded that it was not shareware or free, and that it shouldn't
be posted. I later discovered that the version I found had come from GEnie,
where it had been uploaded (it has since been removed). I still don't know
when it will be published, who by, and for how much. I really think it would
have been a good idea for Mr. Derossi to put some sort of message in the
cdev like 'commercial software - do not distribute'. It would have prevented
at least some of its distribution. Can anyone at Apple please contact
Mr. Derossi to get his input (once again) on the matter?

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