On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:11:01 -0400, JT Croteau wrote: > I have seen many great products that end up dying a useless >death because code was sold to people who never did anything >with it.
I fear that about the very same mail client that I am using to post this message. PMMail started as a mail client designed by two graduate students for the IBM OS/2 operating system which I was running at the time. It was head and shoulders above anything available at the time in features and ease of use. Because of the popularity of the Windows operating systems, they ported it to that platform several years later. They also developed a news reader for OS/2 that had the same "look and feel" as the mail client but never ported it to Windows, and arranged sales of their products through a specific distributor which eventually got the rights to the programs. After they graduated from college and lost interest in developing future versions, they went their own ways and there hasn't been any upgrades in the last four years. Rumor has it that they have sold the source code for their OS/2 product to an individual who may or may not rewrite it - I stopped using the OS/2 platform several years ago. No upgrades to the Windows product is expected, nor a port of the newsreader to the Windows platform. As a result I have had to migrate to Forte Agent, a top-of-the-line newsreader, but it doesn't have all the features that the OS/2 newsreader had. With the plethora of mail clients available, why an I sticking to this program? It has two features that I haven't found in any of the other programs - it saves messages as individual text messages rather than buried in a data base, and it permits the use of an external text editor for both composing and reading messages. Will the same thing happen with our K-line gear? I certainly hope not. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
