Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!chuq
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re^2: Red Ryder 11.0
Message-ID: <32956@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 19:05:03 GMT
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>Speaking of disgraceful product releases, should one be reminded of
>Word 3.00...Word 4.0 was not free either, so make sure your own closet
>is clean before you a start accusing other software companies for failing
>to deliver Stu.

Word 4 isn't perfect, but at least Microsoft didn't build a wonderful
customer perception selling inexpensive shareware, go commercial, raise the
price significantly, ship three buggy releases within a week and then
disappear for, what, 18 months? -- between 10.3 and the still rumored 11.0.

I was willing to tolerate RR when it was shareware and had lots of rough
edges. Now that it's commercial, however, it creates a higher level of
expectation -- which it doesn't come close to meeting. Scripting is a pain,
the documentation is ludicrous, the user interface is a farce. The only
reason I still use 10.3 is because I haven't wanted to spend money on
something else -- but I don't plan on upgrading to 11.0. I'm going to some
other program instead.


Chuq Von Rospach      =|=     Editor,OtherRealms     =|=     Member SFWA/ASFA
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      [This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.]

You are false data. Therefore I shall ignore you.