On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 01:40 AM, Peter Hickman wrote: > Chris Gehlker wrote: > >> >> It does cause some problems if you have REALbasic on the Mac. A lot >> of Macs do have a demo version of Realbasic because of a marketing >> tie in with Microsoft. If the user installed MS Office and chose to >> install everything, they got a demo version of REALbasic that they >> may not even be aware of. I was burned this way. > > > Real Basic is the product of http://www.realsoftware.com/ which has no > ties to Microsoft. I have the Office v 10 upgrade CD with the REALbasic promo right in my hand. See: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/excelx/ excelx_main.asp?embfname=xl_whatsnew.asp for one example of MS promoting REALbasic on their site. > Besides I have never found a copy of RealBasic on any mac I have used > (OS9 to OSX 10.2.1). > Not everyone is as lucky as you are. -- There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." -John Brunner, science fiction writer (1934-1995)