RE: Orphaned software and legal recourse

["M. W. Poirier" Poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

-----Original Message-----
From:	Anne Putnam [SMTP:aputnam@xxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Thursday, October 11, 2001 2:50 PM
To:	xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Cc:	responses@xxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: Orphaned software and legal recourse



  I think that part of the problem here is that many users of
  XYWrite are inveterate DOS people, and we have no wish to
  migrate to a Windows programme, which is what we would
  have to do were we to migrate to NB at this point. Unless,
  of course, you plan to market an updated DOS version of
  NB.

  In addition, I can say that I did purchase the last version of
  NB for DOS, i.e., 4.5a, ...a very good programme. However,
  I find it to have one serious limitation, ...it can not handle well
  large files, i.e, files of over 100, 000 kb to 1.5mb and above
  bytes. So, if I want to remain with DOS (and I definitely
  do) I am forced to migrate some of my large files work to
  XY4, where large files are not a problem. Of course, I still
  use NB4.5a, and as I said, I like it very much. But Windows
  NB is no solution for me, and I suspect others as well.

  M.W. Poirier


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> > How do we know Nota Bene hasn't already bought the rights?
> > Anne ? ... ?
> >

We continue to license the XyWrite source code, and nothing that TTG
does (or doesn't do) will change that. TTG continues to own the code.

> > Or how do we know they haven't reverted to Dave. Dave ? ... ?
> >
> > or to somebody else? ... ?
>
> Good points. And even if you got past those, who's going to do
> the coding ? Dave is now with NB. Someone like Carl or Robert
> would have to be 1) Interested, 2) Available, & 3) World-class
> Assembler programmers.  That's asking a lot.

The solution seems obvious. We are interested, available and we have
world-class assembler programmers.  It's time to get behind Nota Bene!

Anne

Anne Putnam
President, Nota Bene Associates, Inc.
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