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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: WRITE (retraction of FLAME)
Message-ID: <7513@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 31 Mar 89 19:22:33 GMT
References: <4085@druhi.ATT.COM> <446@electro.UUCP>
Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <446@electro.UUCP> ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:
>In article <4085@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.UUCP (TerrellE) writes:
>i don't understand why atari just didn't hire any programmers to fix the
>damn bugs in write. the program itself has promise, but the stupid little
>bugs are just too annoying to work with.

Consider that it's a Microsoft program.  Somehow I doubt that Atari even
had the source to Write, or the rights to do anything with it if they
did have source.  (Then again, I could be wrong.)

Wasn't "lack of source" a problem on some of Atari's other long-delayed
bug fixes?  In this situation there's really remarkably little you can
do except have the legal department go to war, or start from scratch--
neither of which was probably feasible.

-Antonio Romero  romero@confidence.princeton.edu