harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NMSG LKG2-2/Y10 DTN=226-5564) (01/20/88)
According to the various reports from MacWorld, Ann Arbor
software was happily giving away DEMO versions of their ALMOST
FullWrite Professional software to anyone who wanted one (rumored
to be about 10,000 copies). This is supposed to be a fully
functional program in its current (ALMOST ready) state without
the spelling checker or thesaurus, which prints DEMO on each page
of output.
For those of us who are waiting for our orders to be filled (not
the subset who ordered directly from Ann Arbor and have already
received a beta version), is it possible (and legal, of course)
for someone who DID get the demo version to post it to the net?
Given that this is explicitly a DEMO, and was freely given away
at MacWorld, I don't see an issue, and it should certainly be a
good use of the net, given the high interest.
I know that I'd LOVE to see this as soon as possible, and suspect
that the same is true for the many others who are salivating from
the various reviews.
Can someone oblige?
Disclaimer: These are, of course, MY views, not necessarily
shared by my employeer.
Jeff Harrow
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In article <8801201413.AA06283@decwrl.dec.com> harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NMSG LKG2-2/Y10 DTN=226-5564) writes: >For those of us who are waiting for our orders to be filled (not >the subset who ordered directly from Ann Arbor and have already >received a beta version), is it possible (and legal, of course) >for someone who DID get the demo version to post it to the net? It's two (2) 800K disks. That's probably pushing it for the size of things going across the net. The demo on a MacPlus was very slow -- about MacWrite speed. We couldn't get it to even launch on a 1 meg Mac II. Until I see a good working version with a little more speed, I'll stick with Microsoft Word, even though the WYSIWYG columns were really nice... Ken -- Ken Hancock UUCP: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu BITNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu DISCLAIMER: If people weren't so sue-happy, I wouldn't need one!