[Ham-Mac] Re: WinLinkMac? WinLinkX?

[Steven Palm]

On Apr 16, 2004, at 4:12 PM, harris ruben wrote:
>>> 3) It would be impossible, to construct a Macintosh client for 
>>> Winlink without the permission and support of the Winlink 2000 
>>> Development Team.
>>
>>  That's why I never pursued this, otherwise I would have considered 
>> this a long time ago as I think WinLink is a great idea.
>
>
> So I sent them an e-mail, earlier today. They said:
> "Harry,
>
> You are most welcome to code the system to be operative on a MAC. We 
> rarely
> get such a request and with only two active programmers now using 
> VB.Net, we
> currently have our hands full.
>
> Steve, k4cjx"
>
> Is this "permission?"

  Permission is one thing, and it would be granted in the form of open 
dialogue in terms of the protocols and how it operates. If they provide 
either well documented information on the protocol or perhaps some 
sample code as a starting point, then you'd cover all the bases... 
They'd be saying "We don't mind that you work with it" and providing 
the framework from which to do that work.

  However, reading the rest of the thread, it appears that James already 
has a good head start on this. Having any non-programmers contacting 
them regarding this, or anyone who isn't serious about taking it on, 
will probably only lead to a negative for the long term anyway as it's 
just an annoyance at that point, nothing would come out of it.