Re: XYWRITE digest 2334

[Bill Mallon bmallon@xxxxxxxx]

At 12:01 AM 8/8/2005, you wrote:
> Yeah, that is the real crux of the matter. TTG (The Technology Group, the
> company that bought it after the IBM fiasco) went out of business, but the
> owner, a lawyer named Kenneth Frank, is apparently unfindable and
> unwilling to let go (dog-in-the-manger ware, I call it). Nota Bene has a
> license, because Xy forms the basic engine of their product. I have
> suggested before, but have gotten no response, that we approach them about
> letting people buy copies of Xy from them cheaply (we'd have to have the
> manuals available as PDFs, something Bry Henderson is working on). The
> other alternative would be to seek out a programmer in some country where
> reverse engineering is allowed, and see if he/she/they would be interested
> in a port to Linux. I still maintain that Xy in Linux native would be "a
> match made in heaven."
I think the people to actually talk to are Red Hat or some other open
source version of Linux. They might be interested and it would work well.


Bill
Bill Mallon