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- From: djarvis@u.washington.edu (David Jarvis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FW 5
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 08:12:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Message-ID: <4hgt11$m8a@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <4hfrng$60q@sundog.tiac.net>, David Meyer <dmeyer@tiac.net> wrote:
- >Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- >:
- >: 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.
- >:
- >Woody has already posted a message regarding this situation. If I read it
- >properly, the code was not produced in-house or at SoftWood's expense.
- >This would remove the sting of "we've been paying so they could benefit".
-
- To explain why I was ticked off, here is a direct paste from Softwood's
- FW-W'95 web page:
-
-
- - "SoftWood's goal is to offer a powerful, low-cost alternative to the
- - mainstay word processors on the PC, have fun, and survive in business
- - doing it. Will we be successful? Who knows. All that is certain is that
- - we have invested two and a half years of our lives developing our product
- - in the hopes that Win95 users will like our approach to word processing."
-
-
- I think people can see why I would have not have known that the project was
- contracted out to other developers without being supported by Amiga
- user's upgrade fees. I think it was a poor choice of PR, and that
- Woody's comments clearing up the issue should have been on the Web pages
- to start with, or it is only reasonable to assume that with the
- volatile nature of the WW - FW debate, and the precarious nature of
- the US AMiga market, that people would be worried.
-
- >Additionally, FW5, claimed to be due in April, will supposedly have more
- >import/export filters, plus Tables and other long-awaited features, that
- >you say you have been waiting for. Thus your only complaint is that some
- >of them are getting a "Cover Disk" version of a product we don't yet
- >have. Yes, well, ahhh, ... OK, that's hard to smile about.
- >
- >Make sure all your best buddies who have Win'95 get ahold of this
- >package, though. Bite the bullet and pass the word. If you both have
- >copies of Final Writer you should be able to share native mode - or at
- >least RTF mode - files with each other. The more who have it, the more
- >you can share with. The need for more import/export filters was never
- >seriously powered by the need for bragging rights but over the need to
- >share files between systems.
- >DELIVERED!
-
- Actually, that is the most constructive thing I have heard yet. I
- will encourage the people I work with order it, so I don't have
- to teach them how to use their lame old Word Perfect 5.x that they
- still use, and the Word users can get FW'95 to load their
- docs and save them with most formatting intact as FW files so that I
- could hopefully load them into my Amiga FW. That would be nice!
-
- Who knows, then the WordPerfect users might just go to FW'95, as they
- don't use the advanced features anyway (some of them are just learning
- to use a mouse, but these people can lose me in a heartbeat describing
- the intricacies of identifying the molecular sources of a bacterial
- epidemic- they just don't like messing around with word-processors,
- which is why FW'95 might be so good for them, not too mention me!)
-
- David Jarvis
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