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From: Jack.O'keeffe@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
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Subject: Re: Sign Friends
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Date: 14 May 91 13:49:38 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hi Fran,

 FO> My thought is that, by and large, the education sector is NOT
 FO> involved in BBS's and FIDO and has had the least exposure to the
 FO> program.  I wouldn't want to take SF out of the realm of
 FO> shareware totally but if a company like Hartley marketed it,
 FO> maybe more people in education would find out about it.

Yes, the education sector does seem to march to the beat of their
own drummer, with lots of emphasis on "WIMP" interfaces and stuff
like that.  At the RESNA conference last year I learned, to my
chagrin, that the "AbleData" assistive tech database was all on
Apple Macs, with only nebulous plans to port it to the MS/DOS world.
Perhaps WINDOWS will change things.

With SF written in BASIC, it should be fairly easy to transport it
to Appleland. This would probably be necessary for educational use.

 FO> Not sure how this would work--being both commercial AND
 FO> shareware--and of course, this is all predicated on them liking
 FO> and wanting it in the first place, which may not even happen...

A few others have done things like that. And how can they NOT like it?
I hope this works out and gives you some reward and recognition for
all the effort and talent you've put into SF.

... Jack.

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