Re: Is Xy 4 now freeware?/my advice abandonware

[Jay Mcnally jaymcnally@xxxxxxxx]

Before Bill Gates ruined it all, XyWrite was my newspaper's software (in the '80s and '90s), and we'd have paid any price for it. "Any," meaning something in line with Photoshop, the Adobe products back then, etc.

In the late '80s and into the '90s XyWrite was the standard in the newspaper industry, used by literally every major newspaper, including the NYT and WSJ. I think some company modified it into "c-text".

I did extensive xpl programming that saved me (managing editor) probably 10 or more hours of tedium a week (that no other program could do). So since I made the decision, it would have been worth upwards of $ 10K.

Jay




On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Harry Binswanger mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx wrote:




Good luck with that, regarding
NB and U2.


Yeah, I think we all want to at least have the option of using
NB.


Here's the latest email on the state of play, from Steve Siebert on
Wednesday:



Dear Harry,




There's good news and middling news. Sam has actually fixed this
problem -- the file now loads, although he doesn't (and I don't) have a
way of testing the functions themselves. BUT... some basic functions in
NB 10 are in the process of being taken apart, and I cannot build a
working version at the moment. (And it may take a couple of weeks before
we put everything back together again.) So I am afraid that there will be
a small delay...




Business ?  I thought you were in academia . . .
.

I'm in philosophy, and my business is running a philosophic website (on
Objectivism). I used to have a foot in academia, teaching part-time or as
visiting professor, but I haven't done that since a 2002 brief stint at
the University of Texas/Austin.


--Harry





   Jordan






From: Harry Binswanger
mailto:hb@xxxxxxxx


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2015 8:01 AM


Subject: Re: Is Xy 4 now freeware?/my advice abandonware




I think Carl is asking, through this thought experiment, how much
XyWrite


is worth to you.



In my case, I'd say $10,000 or more. It would be hard for me to run
my


business without XyWrite.



BTW, I'm nudging Steve Siebert (of Nota Bene technical support) to
fix


NB10+ so that it will at least load the U2 file. At present, trying
to do


so gives an error message: "file is missing {{" even if the
file is empty.