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- From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Development Continues
- Message-ID: <BtEJ6J.B28@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Aug18.230341.28375@morrow.stanford.edu> <1992Aug19.194749.2430@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:20:29 GMT
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- randyj@randy.oac.osc.edu (Randy Jackson) writes:
- >Burned? In what way? And why transfer an Amiga-based policy to (all)
- >other platforms?
-
- All I expected for WP/Amiga was the same thing I now expect for
- WP/NeXT-- free bug upgrades (which I got, sometimes) and non-free
- feature upgrades to bring my WP up to the level of the DOS version.
- It seemed like the Amiga version was being outdone by the DOS version
- left and right. Then I read in the WP Journal that WP Corp. would
- officially drop support of the Amiga. Based on the upgrades becoming
- most trivial (some new silly file requestor with a spinning barbell
- graphic is not my idea of an upgrade of any sort) and the bug fixes no
- longer coming, I had thought that WP stopped Amiga support long before
- they announced it (approximately one year before, if I remember
- correctly what I was thinking back then).
-
- Now, I see that the Windows version is getting all the glory and all
- the snazzy new stuff, while the perfectly capable NeXT platform
- receives nothing. To me, this is being burned by WP.
-
- There was a time where Amiga users basically had to beg for simple bug
- upgrades and getting WP to actually pay attention to Intuition
- standards when developing their Amiga product. I don't have time to
- play that silly game with the NeXT version.
-
- WP is okay, but as it is on the NeXT, it is certainly not something I
- would even consider dashing off a quick letter to anyone upon. I also
- don't want to get too much into it if WP won't support it later on.
-
- I realize that since WP/NeXT isn't generating the sales that
- (probably) both NeXT and WP Corp. wished it would, WP Corp. is
- reluctant to support it, but I think that they should have put up a
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
- -- No NeXTmail please
-