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- From: kls30@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!): No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
- Message-ID: <3avo02fi1c4V01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:24:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.005304.7212@Trirex.COM> <1992Jul30.205006.11190@cs.yale.edu>
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- Reply-To: kls30@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Jul30.205006.11190@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu writes:
- >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.
-
- The price set for education was not set by them. The price is set by a
- company the sells all Lotus products to virtually every school campus in
- the U.S.
-
- They also handle Adobe and other products.
-
- BTW - If a small business can afford Lotus 123 they can afford Improv.
-
- >
- >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).
-
- Copy protection sucks. If it is like the stuff on MMa I wouldn't buy
- the product. On the other hand if it justs sticks my machine name and
- my name on a panel showing the registered user I wouldn't mind.
-
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