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Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA12653 for <executor@nacm.com>; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:58:19 -0700 Received: from lab11.cs.purdue.edu (huntercr@lab11.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.11.111]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) with ESMTP id <SAA25520>; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:58:17 -0500 Received: (huntercr@localhost) by lab11.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) id <SAA24710>; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:58:14 -0500 From: huntercr@cs.purdue.edu (Charles Hunter) Message-Id: <199506202358.SAA24710@lab11.cs.purdue.edu> Subject: Re: Executor Recommendation To: vsouth@primenet.com (Veeder South IV), executor@nacm.com (Executor mailing list) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:58:13 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950620151940.18387A-100000@usr2.primenet.com> from "Veeder South IV" at Jun 20, 95 03:35:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2187 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > > Cliff >>>>> "Veeder" == Veeder South IV <vsouth@primenet.com> writes: > >> I have a suggestion for the current versions of Executor... > > OK, "Cliff"- I don't know why you put my name in quotes, for it > IS my real name. You are flaming me for no good reason. I was only > trying to suggest something. Ok Yes, maybe it would only be benificial > to me and I'm sorry but I don't have extra money laying around to help > out Ardi. > Sheesh.. mighty jumpy aren't we? Cliff's Mailer just quotes people's first names in their text. > Cliff >>I have absolutely no idea what you mean by "does not appear to > >>be coming out with the commercial version". > > Sorry, I left out the key word... soon. I do see that progress > is being made. > > >> As such, our goal isn't to sell one copy to Veeder. In > >> fact, there is an entire class of people that we're not particularly > >> aiming Executor at, because we know that it is *much* more profitable > >> to aim Executor towards people who *do* buy software they find useful. > > You are assuming way more about me than you even know. I *DO* > buy software that I find useful. In fact, I am a programmer myself and > also a student so I have much respect for other programmers but little > money to spend. > #!/bin/sh if [ `cat registered.users | grep 'Veeder'` != "" ]; then echo "Thank you, Veeder, for your support" else echo "Face the hard truth that business is about making money" fi > My original post was merely a suggestion, as I thought this > newsgroup was for... not for Flaming people with innocent suggestions. A > word of advice for your PR: 1) Don't get mad at the customers because 2) > you are depending on them. > > Veeder South IV > I think that with the kind of progress that ARDI has been making recently you should not be so hard on them. Of course, you don't seem to have noticed the difference between 1.0 and 1.99m. To me, the differences between each version are tremendous and well worth the praise it receives. Cliff's response wasn't the most cheerful, but I think you are being a little too harsh about this. -- Charles Hunter