Re: What's going on with 1WSW?

[irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <35qu0r$7g7@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Jim Wong <jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall) writes:

>Interesting statment; what Joe User thinks of your product doesn't
>mean anything?

It doesn't mean shit until the product in question has been completed and
gone through beta-testing.  We have some pretty damn good testers, so we
have no need for input from the "peanut gallery".

>>releasing the program in question as freeware.  But I don't put up
>>with this kinda abuse free.  So, thanks to you, if or when we do
>>release it, it'll be crippleware.
>
>That's a curious attitude.

I find the general attiude of the GS users towards GS developers to be curious,
bordering on downright hostile, and so has Rich.  The PC and Mac don't have 
the kind of "rag-ware" market the GS does...let's face it, even the FTA demos 
slammed other users and developers, and in the case of Jason Andersen all
was definitely not in fun.

Basically, Rich and I are writing this for pretty much the same reasons as
always...we want to use such a program, nobody else has written one, so
we're gonna enjoy it.  We certainly don't have the time to deal with a mass
of whiny users who want everything for free.

PS to make the day of the whiny users: the FAX software has been cancelled.
Poof.  No more.  

Ian, target of a few rag-wares himself.
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