Re: SW Subscription (was Re: Editor / Formatter)

[Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

R Tennenbaum wrote:
>>
> Kind of interesting that on the one hand you have someone talking
> about free applications, then a few days later we're talking about
> subscribing to Xywrite. Personally, I don't see this idea of
> subscribing to software having much of a future, and certainly not in
> this case, where we seem to be dealing with a company whose dedication
> to its product seems suspect at best. The nature of the market

   And just what would we be subscribing to? A writ in stone
commitment by TTG to create a new XY with true native versions for OS/2,
DOS, w95, NT, Linux, Solaris, and Macs? With a built in browser? Sure,
I'd subscribe to that -- but certainly nothing less. Not when I can get
something equal or better for Linux for free.
  Or would it be a subscription to continued support for XYDOS? Not
out of my pocket, that's for sure. I just figured out today that SW
doesn't even care whether I use \ or / for dos pathnames, at least in
the browser. Very cool! You can't imagine how many times I type the
wrong one in XY and sit there puzzled for a moment trying to figure out
why it won't work.

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