#DTP
Forgive me if I feel it's your intelligence at question here. Soft-Logik
has a proven record of delivering the goods, if not as early as we or they
would like. They have always tried to, and succeeded in, improving their
products and listening to what people want. Anybody who's ever done
software development knows that developers are never, ever given enough
time to deliver a solid program like they'd like. If it's not some boss
promising some unrealistic date, it's the pressures of getting to market
in time to get some business.
Pagestream3 is one of the most complex programs, if not the most complex,
ever written for the Amiga. To top it off, they're not even charging half
of what it's worth (OK, will be worth). Most people upgrading means even
less than that. In case you guys hadn't noticed, it's holocaust time.
These are trying times for anybody doing Amiga development. It's
relatively nothing for us users to switch platform. It won't be the end
of the world. For Amiga developers it can mean personal ruin at worst, no
job and a bleak future at best. Please stop whining like an infant and
look at the whole picture. The world consists of a little bit more than
our own little personal rooms, even if it's the only thing that matters to
us.
Where most people are bailing out or sitting on their thumbs to wait and
see what happens, these guys are putting in sixteen hour days to get you
what you want, and they still keep getting criticised and harrassed for
showing you they're truly working on something awesome you'll be able to
soon have in its entirety.
The read-me file states very clearly what is implemented and what isn't,
and the fact it's not finished yet means there's some bugs still around.
But there is so much more in the new product you can easily spend a month
learning all the new neat stuff, and setting up your DTP environment in a
way not possible in any other platform. In the meantime keep using 2.2
for production, knowing you'll be able to move all the stuff to 3.0 when
it's done.
I really wanted to curse some people out for their heartless assaults, but
that doesn't really solve anything and just creates more bad feelings.
Please understand Soft-Logik is between a rock and a hard place, they
still need to eat, pay mortgages and run a business, and are not trying to
take anybody out for a ride. If anything, they (and all Amiga developers)
have been taken for a ride by the big C=. They're just doing the best
anybody can do in the worst of possible times. Have a little faith and
reap the benefits of goodwill.
Sorry, but I do feel better now. I hope you do, too.
DJ
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