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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Open letter to NextDevelopers (long)(Flamebait)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.161255.27640@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1992Jul21.144606.29752@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:12:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.144606.29752@athena.mit.edu>
- ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari) writes:
-
- >Sherwood raises a lot of interesting points in his post. I
- >certainly have felt similar frustrations myself. It just
- >hurts to see our EquationBuilder app used as an example
- >(ouch)
- >[...]
-
- >But there is still the larger question of whether people
- >prefer crippled demos that run indefinitely, or fully
- >functional demos that die after some fixed time. The jury
- >seems to still be out on this one. It is just as easy for
- >us to do either. It depends on what the community prefers.
- >(Perhaps both?)
-
- >Regardless, if someone feels that they need more time to
- >evaluate our app, just drop us a note and we will do our
- >best to be accommodating.
-
- Since I have no direct experience with this particular
- product, I have no axe to grind, either way. What I liked,
- however, was that you seem to be paying close attention and
- to have an open, flexible attitude towards addressing the
- actual concerns of actual people. Though you're not the
- only developers who might do so, it's a refreshing change of
- attitude after the insistent "it's free so you get screwed"
- point of view Scott is trying to argue for.
-
- --
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