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In article <1992Apr7.184513.22713@cco.caltech.edu>  
ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar) writes:
> ...
> I believe that NewsGrazer will be 'frozen' at the current level,
> although you   can bug_next if there are significant bugs.  That leaves
> the market open for   commercial products like Jayson's
> "NewsExplorer."  Sort of like with BackSpace.    NeXT is trying to a
> void competing with it's developers, after all.
> ...

Hopefully NeXT will see fit to do the RightThing(TM) and include  
NewsGrazer+source code in 3.0 as a demo app (a'la Backspace). NewGrazer is  
a very fine app with lots of good ideas, but it also lacks many crucial  
features and leaves enough to be desired that there is lots of room to  
grow. In the worse case scenerio, releasing NG to the public domain will  
only serve to raise the lowest common denominator for GUI-based  
newsreaders AND provide a level playing ground for all those who wish to  
develop software for the NeXT computer. How's that for living up to NeXT's  
latest marketing chant of "Your next custom application is already half  
finished ..." :-)

Any half-wit-coke-drinking-pizza-eating-propeller-head can vastly improve  
on NG and make it a very marketable product. What about it NeXT? You've  
done the RightThing(TM) with Backspace, now lets do it again with  
NewsGrazer ... just for the sake for being consistently smart :-)

Joe

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