Conference hydra::amiga_v1

1415.0. "AMIGA IN SALES UPDATE" by POLAR::GOSLING (Think KANATA INC.) Wed May 11 1988 12:57

       Just received Sales Update - Volume 19 Number 22, May 2, 1988, and
       in a section entitled ""Public Domain" Software Available from the
       Decus Program Library" (page 41), is the following:
       
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                                Software
                                --------
       
       Title:           AMIGA Utilities Collection, February 1988, P/N
                        V-SP-72
       Keywords:        Data Base Management, Games, Graphics, Utilities
       Description:     Contains: VT100 emulators, editors, CAD programs,
                        hard disk back-up, new fonts, multi windowing,
                        etc.
       
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       Now, this is all very nice and in my way of thinking (as
       convoluted as it may be) should help further the AMIGA cause.
       
       It also, however, has made me more confused with regard to the
       issue of DEC employees contributing to the success of its'
       competition by way of promoting the use and viability of their
       products through software development and the like.  Isn't that
       exactly what the Corporation is now doing, through DECUS, by
       offering PD software?
       
       Perhaps, this allows those so inclined with an out - submit the
       fruits of your labour to the DECUS Program Library in order to
       legitimize the effort!
       
       Art
         

    DECUS is not DEC, and DEC is not DECUS.  DECUS is an organization
    of users of DEC equipment, and is not, in theory, answerable to
    DEC for its policies.
    
    In practice, if DEC feels strongly enough about a DECUS policy DECUS
    will go along, since DECUS gets a lot of its funding from DEC. 
    But if DEC tries to be too pushy, DECUS will cut loose and become
    completely independent.  Hence, DEC doesn't sweat the small stuff,
    like Amiga programs in the DECUS library.
    
    It is certainly possible for DEC employees to submit programs to
    the DECUS library, but that doesn't avoid any DEC policies, any
    more than sending the software to Fred Fish would.
        John Sauter

There is IDECUS (Internal DECUS) for DEC

John

BTW - Does this stuff look worth getting? DECUS stuff is usually pretty good,
right?

How do we (DEC employees) go about getting this stuff?

John

    Will there be an Amiga Booth at IDECUS down in Bedford later this
    month?!

    DEC employees order stuff from the DECUS library the same way
    as persons who are not DEC employees.
    
    As far as I know IDECUS doesn't maintain a program library.
        John Sauter

> same as non dec people do

And hows that?  :-)

John (who's never done that)

    I believe there's an order form in the back of DECUSscope.
    If you don't have a copy of DECUSscope, try calling the
    DECUS Softare Library, at DTN 296-3514, or Order Processing
    at DTN 296-3422.
        John Sauter