Macpaint and quickdraw source code posted — #6

Post #6 by Bunsen

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Development
Post Date	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 - 23:39
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code-posted.20973/

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But that's a technicality.

Also known as - the law.

freely distributed code and/or software for "non-commercial" uses, is pretty much all any of us have ever wanted with pre-System 7 software / "non-commercial use" allows for a wide array of use

Agreed.

This is the money quote from that article, to me:

Don Knuth called MacPaint “the best program ever written.”

Also:

Finally / Hertzfeld saw / Steve Jobs, and told him of the stalled request for the source code. Within 24 hours, Jobs asked Apple’s new general counsel / to approve it.

So it was El Steevo who let the cat out of the bag in the end