Re: More Xpress bombshell

Glenn S. Tenney (starnet!apple!netcom.com!tenney)
Tue, 12 Apr 1994 10:52:53 -0800

At 8:17 AM 4/12/94 -0700, William C Fenner wrote:
>Plus, they appear to have stopped releasing their info about 3 years ago. My
>old X*Press developer's kit also has language saying that if you're going to
>distribute your software, you must run it by their quality-assurance people
>first.

Actually, the language that they gave me (which I refused to sign since I
had reverse engineered the protocol already) was much worse than that: It
said that you couldn't sell or distribute anything unless they approved --
not a QA question, but they demanded 100% control.

>Is this the end of useful X*Press service? I really like being able to telnet
>home from work and read X*Press; can't do that on a 286 running their
>software.

It would seem that they now believe that they are going to make their real
money selling the software instead of the service. A BIG mistake, imho.

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