Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekchips!tekgvs!thorh
From: thorh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Thor Hallen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Wincomm timer (was Re: Wincomm can't do vi!)
Summary: Wincomm ripoff
Keywords: wincomm, vt100 terminal emultion
Message-ID: <8277@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 90 22:37:36 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.010437.3359@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Oct16.141129.26359@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <1990Oct16.141129.26359@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, butch@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (H. G. Walker) writes:
> In article <1990Oct16.040005.7741@cs.uoregon.edu>, akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
> |> the wincomm people posted a message which made me believe that wincomm
> |> will work only for a fixed amount of time, and then stop working after
> |> some date. I don't want to spend time on an application (putting
> |> together screen captures so that they can debug the output takes a
> |> while), get used to it, and then find that it is not going to work.
> 
> ......  If they did not make it die, nobody would purchase the package
> and, after all, making money is why their in business.

	Other software vendors are able to make money without using user
funded net resources to debug and promote their *commercial* products.

> Buying the package will only result in even better response to problems as
> purchasing is a behaviour that should be reinforced.  There will still be
> free bug fixes, plus you get a manual which explains the macro language and 
> opens up a whole new aspect of Wincomm.

	Synappsys is either ignorant of accepted industry practices or
incredibly greedy. From the number of bug reports, it would be generous
to classify it as a Beta release. Most professional software vendors
compensate Beta site evaluators with a free copy of the final release.
Even with the "compensation", I usually earn less than a dollar an hour.

> 
> |> So for me it is back to good old telix, does everything... Works in
> |> dos mode, but...
> 
	I will also continue using Telix. I gladly registered my copy
after being able to evaluate an uncrippled version for an indefinite
period of time that was *bug free*. Telix is *shareware* rather than a
*commercial* product.

						Thor Hallen