mshiels@watdragon.UUCP (Michael Shiels @WatDragon) (03/31/86)
[gobble gobble gobble] I have just finished looking at the April 15th issue of PC-MAGAZINE and inside the magazine was a demanstration disk for a word processing package. The package is a protected version of PC-WRITE. I think it sold for around 90 to 100 dollars. Is the shareware version not going to be distributed anymore? Did they buy the rights to all future enhancements??? What is the status of PC-WRITE??? michael a. shiels
phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) (04/03/86)
I've been using version 2.55, which was released last June, and yesterday
I received an advertising postcard that announced version 2.6. The prices
on the card were the same as before: $10 for the program and $75 for
registration.
Considering the history of PC-WRITE, I doubt that any sudden changes like
copy protection and high prices would be forthcoming, and I'm sure they
would not be well received by myriad PC-WRITE fans.
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John Miller (ecsvax!phco)
Dept. of Pharmacology, Univ. of N.C.-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 966-4628mr@isrnix.UUCP (mr) (04/04/86)
]:[
yeah, i too was surprised to see how closely the "brown bag" editor was to
pc-write. some of the "brown bag's" installation files (for the printer,
etc.) are even the same size and date as pc-write's!!
i'm sure there's been a law suit filed by now...
as confirmed by a telephone call to quicksoft, the authors of pc-write, they
are on schedule to release version 2.6 "around the first of april."
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.^. michael regoli
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'|!|` <mr@isrnix.UUCP> krausej@stolaf.UUCP (James J. Krause) (04/11/86)
> ]:[ > > yeah, i too was surprised to see how closely the "brown bag" editor was to > pc-write. some of the "brown bag's" installation files (for the printer, > etc.) are even the same size and date as pc-write's!! > > i'm sure there's been a law suit filed by now... > I'm not sure if that comment was meant in jest or not, but it probably won't happen. Back when I got my copy of PC-WRITE, Quicksoft offered terms for OEM distribution, where you could buy copies cheap and resell them under your own terms. Please correct me if you know better, but I assume that's what has taken place in this instance.... James Krause ...!ihnp4!stolaf!krausej
nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) (04/11/86)
> i'm sure there's been a law suit filed by now... > I doubt it. I explored the "brown bag" disk with my "strings" program (since posted to net.sources) and found evidence that Wallace had licensed this version of PC-Write to the brown baggers. And it isn't just similar -- it *is* PC Write. -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU