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In article <1992Aug26.212116.527@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
>Backspace is now an example on the 3.0 release CD-Rom  
>(NextDeveloper/Examples/AppKit). That probably has something to do with why  
>NeXT has requested that Backspace is no longer distributed...

	No.  This first part of the story is clouded in shadow.  Apparantly,
some developer who was planning or was marketing a screen saver/screen
locker got rather put off by a NeXT employee making and releasing BackSpace
to the world.  A few months (By which time Backspace was a staple of the
NeXT community), the complaint apparantly occured.  Or something like that.
The result was that NeXT requested the removal of BackSpace, and the author,
Samuel G. Strepper, complied.  Actually, BackSpace shouldn't have been
released in the first place, upon afterthought, and all PD/Shareware
releases by NeXT employees need to now be cleared by NeXT before doing so.
Just common sense.  NeXT employees should not undercut developers needlessly.

	But there was such a ROAR over the removal fo backspace, that a few
weeks later, a couple of days before the Expo, they announced that it would
be included in the next OS release as an example.  Alas, it was too late for
me, as I had already made up my "Save BackSpace" T SHirt to wear to the
expo.  But at least I saw what the results were.  The calibre of screen
saver entries at the expo is much higher then there probably would have
been, as well as creating a unified screen saver image format.  Metro-tools,
a multi use program, includes its own and can run BackSpace modules.  And
PixelSaver, a preferences driven, root level, works when logged out, also
includes a module to run backsapce modules.  So i think it was beneficial in
the long run.  Enough ranting.  Ciao all.
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                             Nicholas C. Weaver
nweaver@ocf.berkeley.edu                           nweaver@soda.berkeley.edu
It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, .signifying nothing.