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Re: subcriptions

≪ XYWRITE A word processor designed for writers, not for
the typing pools of large corporations ≫ --Nathan Sivin


As if typists had any more voice in corporate software
decision making than xylist subscribers who gripe about
being forced to use Word at work. That might more fairly
be phrased "A word processor designed for prepress, not
for IS departments to inflict on their helpless victims."

The xylist subscription total has finally inched up to more
than half the number of xyW site licenses *one* Midwestern
daily holds. Multiply the Kansas City Star's 250 licenses
by X number of publications from Boston to San Francisco
to Kuala Lampur to Johannesburg to see how xyWrite became
established as a "writer's word processor." Subtract the
number that yawned when IBM tried to turn xyWrite into a
word processor only an IS department could love, and defected
after XyQuest/TTG failed to optimize xyWrite for Quark.
And I've known more than one writer who would call xyWrite
an instrument designed by the devil for publishers to
punish former ink-stained wretches. ... Ciao.     --a

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