Re: XyWrite for Linux

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Dear Wendell:
 Did you consider sending your comments (especially about the "other" word
processors on Linux) to some of the vast crowd of Linux developers. I
suspect they MIGHT just be interested.
Dick Giering

Wendell Cochran wrote:

> Bill Mallon:
> >> Can you even use XyWrite with a Linux system?
>
> Peter Evans:
> > You can use DOS programs with a Linux system; thus you can use XyWrite
> with a Linux system. However, a native Linux version of XyWrite would
> require rewriting from the ground up.
>
> > Has anybody ever thought about trying to interest Red Hat
> > or the Linux crowd into resurrecting XyWrite?
>
> > There is no Linux crowd, but there are interrelated and overlapping
> Linux
> crowds. I doubt very much that any of them would want to work on a DOS
> program, or reverse-develop Xy for Linux.
>
> I believe (& hope!) that's too discouraging. Linux programmers &
> developers exist in very large numbers & work in every field of
> computing. . . . See also the billion-dollar Linux push by IBM --
> notably its newsletter for developers. . . . Add the widespread
> perception that Linux has too few run-of-the-office applications, & the
> indubitable fact that none of the word processors that run on Linux
> (WordPerfect, Abiword, Star Office etc) approach XyWrite in elegance,
> effectiveness, & user satisfaction. . . . I would not rule out Red Hat.
>
> > If, disgusted by recent revelations of new nadirs of Microsoft's greed
> and arrogance, you're itching to break free from that outfit -- well, me
> too.
>
> Observe recent bilge from billg & his MISchiefs: declaring Linux
> un-American, communistic, a destroyer of intellectual property, a cancer
> in computing, a danger to ordinary business operations. . . . Their
> lies can be excused only as emanating from an unreasoning fear for their
> moneybags.
>
> Wendell Cochran
> West Seattle