#Is UEdit dying???
25-Jun-87 02:23:03
Sb: #73718-#Is UEdit dying???
Fm: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
To: John Foust 72237,135
This message turned up in search, but its forum couldn’t be identified from the original transcript, so it may not be linked into its thread.
Okay, are you through being heartless and cynical now? Let's be realistic
and look at it from _our_ perspective. Rick Stiles wrote one h*ll of a
good editor, and placed it into "almost" public domain. He asked for
donations from anyone who feels the program is worthy. I think anyone who
is _using_ UEdit by default considers it useful, and should get off their
wallets and send him some money. To not do so does potential harm to the
future of shareware for the Amiga.
Any question as to whether Rick Stiles is without a full complement of
marbles, was naive, is just stringing us along, or really is an okay guy
who's between a rock and a hard place does not even have to enter into the
issue.
It's very easy to be heartless and cynical. Lots of people are _very_ good
at it. It's much tougher to look at the whole issue from all available
sides. I'm not sure I've done it correctly once in my life. But I can
darn sure see that this man has produced what many consider a good product,
that shareware is a _joint_ proposition, and if we don't do our honest
part, it'll go the way of the dinosaurs. I, for one, don't want that to
happen.