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Article #2113Re: Question of curiosity: who is still
From: preece
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 15:57
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1986 15:57
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> Is anyone still shelling out real $$$ to buy either Unipress' or CCA's > emacs programs? If so, why? ---------- There are several reasons for going with the commercial versions: Support (not every site has hordes of hackers free to hunt for problems and answer questions), features (there are still some things that they can do that GNU can't -- like pop-up windows), and libraries (some of the GNU packages are not as capable as the corresponding Gosling packages -- mail and c-mode come to mind). Support is by far the most powerful of those, especially to non-techie sites; the commercial Emacses have phone numbers you can call for help. Having said which, let me add that most Emacs users here have switched to GNU for most purposes (I still read mail in Gosling and I still do new code creation in Gosling). -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana uucp: ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece arpa: preece@gswd-vms
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: Question of curiosity: who is still Message-ID: <11600018@ccvaxa> Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 11:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.11600018 Posted: Fri Oct 3 11:57:00 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Oct-86 05:30:57 EDT References: <5205@cbrma.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:cbrma.UUCP:5205:ccvaxa:11600018:000:912 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Oct 3 10:57:00 1986