Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media

["mike shupp" m.shupp@xxxxxxxx]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Bialler" 
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Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media
> Personally, my sentiments most closely match those of Walter Jowers, who
> noted:
>
> > I use XyWrite because it works, and the publishers I wrote for in the
80s
> > used it. I use MS products because they work, and current customers and
> > business contacts use them. We make our software decisions based on
> > convenience and self-interest, not a political agenda. (We're running a
> > micro-business. I wish we had the luxury to think about whether or not a
> > piece of software dovetailed with our worldview.)
>
> As someone who prefers results to ideological purity, I say to Walter,
> and those who agree with him, on this: "amen brother!"

But some things work BETTER than others. Working with XyWrite, I am
continually impressed by how well it works-- how "neat" it all is, how
sensibly programmed, etc. MS applications, on the other hand, leave me
chiefly conscious of how poorly programmed they are and how much is
being accomplished by brute strength (and program bloat) rather than through
intelligent design. Operating with XyWrite is like driving a sports car
across
country; with MS software, the experience is akin to driving a garbage truck
with a defective transmission and an out-of-tune engine.