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- From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FW 5
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 96 11:05:33 -0800
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- Message-ID: <83925-825966333@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <4hf65n$ldn@flood.xnet.com>, jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason
- Compton) writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <4hf65n$ldn@flood.xnet.com>
- > References: <4hf5o8$osd@metroux.metrobbs.com>
- > Posted: 4 Mar 1996 16:36:07 GMT
- >
- > Org. : XNet - A Full Service Internet Provider - (708) 983-6064
- >
- > Fuller (mafuller@clubmet.metrobbs.com) wrote:
- >
- > : I need to post this to get it off my chest. Flame away if you must.
- > But
- > : the Amiga Community need to to take a valium and chill. Our platform
- > : will not get any new support without software. Softwoods has supported
- > : the Amiga since the beginning or at least real close. So what if AT
- > didn't
- > : include Softwood software in it's initial bundle, that could change.
- > At
- > : any rate many of us will buy FW and the rest of the family anyway, not
- > : because it was bundled but because it was good.
- >
- > : FW has gotten progressively better each release. Each of us has
- > certain
- > : options we would like to see. I hope each of us will get our complete
- > : list someday.
- >
- > : bring the products to market we want. Those companies probably want
- > our
- > : money as bad as we want their products.
- >
- > I think the real problem here is that Softwood is GIVING to Windows users
- > what Amiga users have been paying for. Actually, they've been paying for
- > it, hoping for more import/export filters, but not getting them. Now
- > they're giftware to anyone who's made a Windows95 purchase.
- >
- > --
- > Jason Compton jcompton@xnet.com
- > Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
- > You know you're on the way out... it's just a matter of
- > time.
- > AR on Aminet - docs/mags/ar???.lha AR Mailing list - Mail me
- > WWW - http://www.omnipresence.com/Amiga/News/AR, www.cucug.org/ar/ar.html
-
-
- I don't think that is actually the situation.
- AMIGA stuff is written from scratch whereas it seems that
- there is a ready made solution to many of these things for
- the win95 programmer.
- Maybe you didn't see Woody's post about how things are in
- response to David Jarvis's comments.
-
- Terry
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