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- From: nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (Nathan F. Janette)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!): No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.205006.11190@cs.yale.edu>
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- Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
- References: <1992Jul30.005304.7212@Trirex.COM>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:50:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.005304.7212@Trirex.COM> mmelling@Trirex.com(Michael
- Mellinger) writes:
-
- > At the SIA show in NYC last month I talked to the Lotus people about
- > Improv 2.0. They said that currently the *entire* Improv team is working
- > on Improv 2.0 for MS Windows, and that they don't have any current plans
- > to port it to the NeXT.
-
- IMHO, It's their own doing.
-
- If they had:
-
- 1. Priced Improv reasonably: it's too expensive for small businesses,
- and was too cheap (free) for educational users.
-
- 2. Made a commitment to the further development of the product, and
- not overplayed their stupid refusal to even comment on whether they
- would fix bugs and add features.
-
- 3. Copy protected the software so people couldn't steal it, which
- I have seen done (with WP as well).
-
-
- > "If I poke myself in the head with this pencil will it hurt?"
- >
- > is equivalent to
- >
- > "Golly, if we only sell 50,000 computers will our company suffer great
- > pain?"
- >
- > Now I'm waiting for NeXT to release a $10,000 RISC workstation that no one
- > can afford
-
- We can, and we will. So will lots of other folks who need the power
- but would prefer to have it harnessed by NeXTstep.
-
- --
- Nathan Janette "I'm a NeXTstep man,
- Dept MB&B, Yale Univ I'm a NeXTcube guy"
- New Haven, CT
- nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)
-
-