On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > Yes I would purchase their updates; I already have > most of their stuff and use.it. They were a cut above > the rest of the dos software and I think they still > have users out there. I have MS Word 6 for dos; > what a real piece of junk..
I know *you* would purchase updates. I just don't think the market is big enough to make it worth *making* updates to the DOS apps. The sales of updates wouldn't cover a fraction of the costs of making them, let alone make actual money, > I wouldn't expect big dos sales but I think their fans > would be after it but not big time. I'd hardly expect *any* DOS sales. Who would *buy* it? Such things are only useful to you if you have a working DOS system where you can run them native, or if you run them in some sort of virtual machine like VdosPlus. But if you need a spreadsheet at all, you run Excel under Windows, or Open Office/Libre Office Calc under Linux, OS/X or Windows, or a standalone cross platform spreadsheet like Gnumeric, or you work online through something like Google Sheets. (And *all* of the non-Excel solutions above can read and write Excel format worksheets. Like it or not, Excel is the standard everyone must adhere to.) > Wordperfert 6.2 had alot of advanced features that > you wouldn't expect to see in dos like the matheditor And Windows programs also have such features, so you don't need to run WP 6.2 to get them. > I use qpro alot; I like to tease my brother in law > that I use turbodos for taxes He's like you only wants > the latest MS junk. No, I don't just want the latest MS junk. You obviously haven't been paying attention when I talk about what I run here. I have an older version of MS Office, but the only component I use is Publisher for the odd DTP project, because I know how to make it do what I want. For WP, spreadsheets and the like, I use Libre Office, and some stuff happens online with Google Docs/Sheets. (In those instances, I am collaborating with others, and we need access to the same files.) I still have some ancient DOS stuff I run under emulation, but that's a hobby thing done for fun. I do not and *cannot* use DOS as my production OS and DOS apps as my main applications. To much of what I do can't be *done* under DOS. If you love QPro, fine. If you can still use a DOS system and DOS applications to do what you need to do, more power to you. But if you can, you are one of a *very* small number of people. The rest of us cannot. And if you think there are a whole lot of people Just Like You who can (or *want* to) do everything in DOS - enough to make it worth while to maintain and sell DOS programs - I fear you are living in a dream world. The rest of the world has moved on. > DS ______ Dennis .. > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:48:13 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > writes: >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> >> wrote: >> > I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but >> > to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. >> > Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you >> > have a million downloads they may feel there is once >> > again a viable market for their product and will sell >> > and upgrade their dos line. I thing that Corel still has >> > alot of dos fans out there. I think alot of people miss >> > the simplicity and practicality of dos. Don't expect the >> > world to be completely free. DOS isn't worth much >> > without high quality software to run on it >> >> I wouldn't expect release of source, either, though it would be >> nice. >> But neither would I expect release for sale. Who would *buy* it? >> DOS >> has been dead for years, and I doubt there would be enough paying >> customers to make sales worth the while. Actually *selling* stuff >> involves costs to be *able* to sell it, and unless you are confident >> of a decent sales volume, it's not worth doing. >> >> Yes, FreeDOS 1.1 has gotten a million downloads, but that, by >> itself, >> is meaningless. How many of the downloaders actually installed it, >> and on what? How many are actually using it, and what are they >> doing >> with it if they are? (My own bet is that most actually using it are >> doing do to play old DOS games *native*, not use stuff like WP or >> QPro.) >> >> Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the >> former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as >> unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their site. >> There was no *paying* market for the DOS stuff, but making it >> available was a nice gesture and good publicity for the Windows >> based >> stuff they could *sell*. >> >> > cheers >> > DS. >> ______ >> Dennis >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > > ******************************************************>>>> > From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry > http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 > *******************************************************>>>> > > ____________________________________________________________ > How To "Remove" Dark Spots > Gundry MD > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5adb825ff054f25f683dst02duc > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
