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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Capps Editor Toolkit
Message-ID: <1593@intercon.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:32:35 GMT
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In article <3309@husc6.harvard.edu>, siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
writes:
> 	I'm not really sure myself; I think that the product wasn't selling
> enough copies to justify the expense of producing and marketing it.

That sounds reasonable, but I still wonder why it isn't for sale at all
anymore.  It's not as though it was expensively packaged :-).

There seems to be a low but constant demand for the package.  Very few
people ask for source, since it is useful enough for most people just as
it is in binary form.  Is there some marketeer at Symantec that people
could lobby for alternatives to multi-thousand dollar source license?

Maybe somebody like BMUG or MacTutor could handle making disks & photocopying
the docs, and then pay a royalty to Symantec for each copy sold...

It's a shame that such a well-done and useful product is unobtainable
because someone decided it wasn't worth selling.

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
amanda@intercon.com