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- >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua W Burton <jburton@nwu.edu> writes:
- In article <4fj3fc$1fu@news.acns.nwu.edu> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) writes:
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- Joshua> Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
- >> Beginning with the Executor 2 beta, we will have two separate
- >> versions, the demo version and the commercial version.
- >>
- >> The demo version will be time limited, and have a few other
- >> limitations built in. It will not be possible to convert this
- >> version to the commercial version because some of the
- >> limitations will be done by actually removing code. The demo
- >> version will be publicly redistributable.
-
- Joshua> As a matter of principle, I suppose I approve: now that
- Joshua> you are making Executor available to the DOS world, you
- Joshua> can no longer make the cozy assumption that none of your
- Joshua> users are pond scum. It rankles that we users (as a
- Joshua> group) can no longer be trusted, but I would rather
- Joshua> swallow this unpalatable truth than see you get ripped
- Joshua> off.
-
- Thanks for understanding. We will do our best to minimize the
- inconvenience to our paying customers.
-
- Joshua> As a practical matter, this is going to be a pain in the
- Joshua> neck for at least a few of your old NeXTstep
- Joshua> customers---those like me who haven't yet gotten around to
- Joshua> buying CD-ROM drives. (Yes, I realize that 1x drives now
- Joshua> cost less than an Executor license, but so does a good
- Joshua> Japanese meal, and I haven't splurged on one of those
- Joshua> lately, either.) Would it be possible, say two weeks
- Joshua> _after_ the chaos of shipping the 2.0 CD subsides, for me
- Joshua> and anyone else in the same boat to receive email (or
- Joshua> "nymous FTP") copies over the net? I don't want to hold
- Joshua> up the works with a special request, but it may be months
- Joshua> before I can get access to a net-connected CD-ROM, and so
- Joshua> even if I have to wait weeks for someone at ARDI to have a
- Joshua> few spare minutes, it still may be my best option.
-
- Hopefully we'll have a faster net connect by the time E2 ships (had
- the local telco not dropped the ball we would have had one in January)
- and we'll try to use it to help out people who won't have CD-ROM
- access.
-
- We greatly appreciate our original customers and thank them for
- sticking with us over the last few years.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
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