Re: AWGS Reclassification

[wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager)]

Henrik 'Ratte' Gudat (GUDATH@EZINFO.VMSMAIL.ETHZ.CH) wrote:
: Hmm, wait a second. If I understood it correctly, AWGS has been updated, at
: least heavily bug-fixed. The reason why it did never see the daylight was
: for purely financial reasons, and not because of some weird code.

I don't know for sure, but that's not what I heard.  Of course the only 
ones that really know are the programmers involved.  I know Burger Bill 
took a shot.  I believe Greg Templeman and possible Steve Dizbrow did 
also.  Dave Lyons is the one that, I think, got the thing to compile.

As for the financial aspect, Jerry Kindall (then with QC) said they paid 
Claris some 6-figure amount for the rights to the program & code.  They 
were hoping for a (relatively) painless upgrade/bug fix they could sell.  
Since a complete rewrite would involve too much development cost, they 
did not think they could recoup their investment (in a complete rewrite), 
so they canned that idea.  Basically QC had to take a loss on that 
6-figure fee, and AWGS remains unchanged at version 1.1.
 
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