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From: carter%sloth@gatech.edu (Carter Bullard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: WriteNow (flame)
Keywords: FLAME!!!!!!!
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Date: 8 Mar 89 15:39:51 GMT
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Reply-To: carter%sloth@gatech.edu (Carter Bullard)
Organization: ICS Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
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(Understand, that i am not normally a violent man. but i must have
 reached my breaking point. i apologize to my mother and my god.)

gentlemen,

   it does not seem to me that there is any intellegence in a corporation
that distributes a piece of software, that is as brain dead as NeXT's
WriteNow application. Normally, when you find a program that is as bad
as this one, you just block its existence out of your conscience.  But
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!  This piece of code is like a siren on the shore of
computing.  Since it is the only piece of software that has any promise of
producing a quick memo with multiple fonts, one gets lured into the idea
that, "it won't mess up.  its only a 5 line memo with my name on it.
how could it crash?"  I'm sure you can imagine the outcome. 
Wrecked! Washed up on the deserted island of NeXT textprocessing without
food, water or any hope of rescue.

But wait, is that 0.9 on the horizon?  i'll start a fire with
my laser printer to get its attention ..... Blast, maybe a book
of matches would have been a better idea.

Carter Bullard
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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