Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE! Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 20:45:56 GMT References: <1991May18.041319.29490@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May21.180108.22477@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: ben@wri.com's message of 21 May 91 18:44:20 GMT In article ben@wri.com (Ben Cox) writes: ben@wri.com (Ben Cox) writes: >It's a good thing Cnews isn't for sale. cathyf@lost.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston) writes: >Yup, because then we'd have to pay for it - and we _would_ pay if I had >anything to say about it. Bet you wouldn't pay for it if all your questions were answered like this: I'm sure that if Wolfram Research, Inc. (makers of Mathematica by the way) were to engage in a support contract with some reasonable company providing support for C News, they would get answers which would be to their liking. The cost for it would be right up there with (say) a support contract for Mathematica, $xxx or $xxxx/year, but it would get you polite, reasoned answers. Perhaps not from the authors of the software, of course, but from some competent and knowlegable people. The C News folks might even be able to put out nice full-color glossy books to go along with it... --Ed