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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 06:08:05 GMT
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- References: <4hbk06$cne@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <woody-0403960709310001@woody.softwood.com> <4hilnu$kc4@Holly.aa.net> <4hj50q$a0u@sundog.tiac.net>
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- David Meyer (dmeyer@tiac.net) wrote:
- : No fair, Jerry. First: both programs are roughly equivalent and only one
- : could be chosen. Second: what makes you think Woody, or anyone else who
- : follows this newsgroup, knows what led to this decision? I'm sure there
- : were serious discussions all around and that both software houses built
- : products for the task. Then someone made a decision. The fact that Digita
- : is a Euro house and owns a larger chunk of the Euro market might have
- : weighed in their favor. Ask the guys at AT, only they know.
-
- Jonathan Anderson, late of Amiga Tech UK put together the pack. The
- sheer volume as a percentage of the pack represented by Digita does give
- reason to pause. Apparently, Anderson never really gave Softwood a chance.
-
- Now, there could have been very good reasons for going with Digita-if the
- rates were right, they had a pretty complete suite of productivity
- software ready to go. But there does seem to be a lot of unfortunate
- regionalism going on right now overall.
-
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