[sw-l] Frustrations of SignWriter DOS users...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 14, 2004

On Oct 14, 2004, at 8:36 AM, Charles Butler wrote:
> I heartily agree with your comment here, Valerie.
> We are fortunate that all of the programmers are working with open 
> source programs,  because of Bill Gates were to get a hold of SW, it 
> would suddenly become proprietary, and all development of interactive 
> software would stop.

Hello Everyone, Stefan, Charles!
Smile...I doubt if Bill Gates would want proprietary rights to 
SignWriting software, since there is no money in it!

And actually my point was more referring to the sadness that Stefan 
feels...and I admit I do too, a little...the fact that even though 
programmers tried so hard to develop a new SignWriter...such as the 
SignWriter Java program...it never got finished...and now Daniel is 
working hard on SignWriter Tiger, and it is a valiant and wonderful 
effort...and we are grateful for it...but a decade later, since 1996, 
DOS development stopped, we still do not have all the features of 
SignWriter DOS in a modern program that works in Windows XP...

so that is the frustration...and it is no one's fault....just the way 
it is...

Computers are changing very fast, which requires new software 
development all the time...

Val ;-)

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>
> Valerie Sutton <sutton at signwriting.org> wrote:
> SignWriting List
> October 14, 2004
>
> Stefan Woehrmann wrote:
> > ....it should be possible to create a program that would work almost
>  > like
> > the GOOD OLD SIGNWRITER 4.4 but would run with Windows XP
> >
> Thanks for your great message, Stefan, and do not worry - we are all
>  working very hard trying to solve these problems. More people would be
>  using SignWriter DOS right now, if Bill Gates had not developed 
> Windows
>  2000, NT and XP...but we can't help that...time marches on and we have
>  to march with it!
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
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