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

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

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 was introduced to Xy in 1987 by a friend who worked for The Atlanta
Journal Constitution, where they all used it.







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 ?’nbsp; 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






’’nbsp; 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.