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From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WriteNow (flame)
Message-ID: <15290007@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 22:22:49 GMT
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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.
>

So what happened? WriteNow is considered one of the better simple word
processors on the Macintosh. Why the violence? Be specific, please. I've
never seen it crash on the Mac.

>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
>uucp:	...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers}!gatech!carter
>Internet:	carter@gatech.edu

Scott Bayes
satisfied WriteNow (Macintosh) user