Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!ames!mailrus!uwmcsd1!leah!itsgw!imagine!pawl13.pawl.rpi.edu!jefu From: jefu@pawl13.pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Is NeWS UseABLE? Message-ID: <1082@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Date: 25 Aug 88 16:12:37 GMT References: <229.8808111329@jura.ritd.co.uk> Sender: news@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU Reply-To: jefu@pawl13.pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam) Organization: RPI Public Access Workstation Lab - Troy, NY Lines: 18 In article <229.8808111329@jura.ritd.co.uk> mr@ritd.co.UK writes: >I'd like to endorse the item from Charles Hedrick >*especially* the comment about the window of opportunity for NeWS closing >rapidly. I really hope that Sun responds to this message (but don't hold >out much hope :-(). Me too. But I would like to add that I think that the window has essentially closed. Too bad. I think that NeWS was a great system but that unavailability of (even buggy) releases and especially code has just about killed all but parochial interest in NeWS as it has made the kind of ubiquitous hacking and production of tools and toys difficult for many people - and in the Unix (tm - and all standard hand waving) world that is one of the things that sells systems. jeff putnam jefu@pawl.rpi.edu "It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."