Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Rant, Rave... Message-ID: Date: 4 May 89 02:16:38 GMT References: <11450@well.UUCP> <13240026@hprmokg.HP.COM>, <687@solaria.csun.edu> Organization: Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: <687@solaria.csun.edu> ecphssrw@trantor.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes: > Only one thing will change WPCorp's collective mind: selling a lot > more copies of WP for the Amiga. If you haven't bought it (I have), > seems to me that you can't really sign a petition. Of course, this is the classic catch-22 problem. I had considered purchasing WordPerfect 4.1 under the Student Discount program. I wasn't planning to buy it for the program it is now; I wanted to buy it now so that when 6.0 came out I could upgrade inexpensively. I don't consider the current program by itself worth buying -- The WordPerfect people said it themselves when they said that 4.x and 5.x were not the right programs for the Amiga. In any event, I am not big on buying a program which has no future. Perhaps the reason why sales for WordPerfect 4.1 fell off so sharply was because the program offered no multiple font or graphics support and wasn't sufficiently "Amigatized", while its competition (excellence!, ProWrite) was. --M -- Michael Portuesi * Information Technology Center * Carnegie Mellon University INET: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu * BITNET: mp1u+@andrew UUCP: ...harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ MAIL: Carnegie Mellon University, P.O. Box 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213