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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 95 version
Date: 1 Sep 1995 13:56:30 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
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hounsell@cc.joensuu.fi (Paul Hounsell) writes:
> I really wish the developers would re-consider about doing a
>true GUI version of kermit that could be ported to Windows.
See today's KERMIT news from Frank da Cruz: Kermit 95 will be out later
this year. That's the good news; the bad news is that it won't be freeware
like the older KERMIT packages from Columbia. Frank estimated the street
price to be US$54; bulk, site, and academic pricing is being worked out.
I don't really like having to pay for it (or anything else, for that
matter) but it's difficult to argue with Frank's quite valid point that
everybody seems to be using KERMIT and few people are paying Columbia
anything for it. Idealism is fine, but somehow you've got to get enough
money to pay the bills. I spent twenty years in academia and I'm too
painfully aware of funding problems.
The code should be hitting the retail store shelves in the near future;
the official release date he posted is 5 October.
Most of us have been quietly freeloading on the Columbia people for years.
Between this and the way that some users seem to think that they have
the right to berate the KERMIT developers for not having released a
native Windows KERMIT I'm amazed that Columbia has been so supportive
of the KERMIT effort. (BTW: a note saying "I really wish the developers
would re-consider about doing a true GUI version" isn't berating anyone;
it's a polite expression of interest. It's the flamers who SCREAM ABOUT
HOW THEY DEMAND ALL SORTS OF COMPLEX FEATURES that give USENET its
bad reputation and irritate providers of freeware.)
Anyway...to KERMIT: welcome to the GUI world! And to the developers of
the new package, congratulations.
Joe Morris / MITRE