Re: Is Xy 4 now freeware?/my advice abandonware

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

I'm with Harry on this. I don't need XyWrite to manage my business,
but I do need XyWrite to manage my life.

At 30/05/2015 16:01, you wrote:
I think Carl is asking, through this thought experiment, how much
XyWrite is worth to you.
In my case, I'd say $10,000 or more. It would be hard for me to run
my business without XyWrite.
BTW, I'm nudging Steve Siebert (of Nota Bene technical support) to
fix NB10+ so that it will at least load the U2 file. At present,
trying to do so gives an error message: "file is missing {{" even if
the file is empty.
Reply to note from flash  Fri, 29 May 2015 23:09:49
+0200

> If someone were to repackage the program and start (re-)selling
> it, some lawyer might smell a fee ...

This assumes that there would be a market for the repackaged program.

Which leads to a hypothetical question: Suppose that all copies of all
versions of EDITOR.EXE in all the world -- including yours, mine and
everyone else's -- disappeared, except for one copy (of each version)
held by an eBay seller who puts it up for auction. What would be your
maximum bid (in US dollars) to recover your favorite flavor of XyWrite
or NB-DOS?

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx