Forwarding this for Bob W7GG to the reflector as
that where I believe he intended it to go ...
Gil ... you DO need to correct your comments
and apologize to Tree, N6TR ... you are WRONG.
73 Billy AA4NU
----- Original Message -----
From: <bob.wruble@verizon.net>
To: "Billy Cox" <aa4nu@ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Curious?? (long)
>billy is exactly right ..... tree never promiseed porting over to
>windows.....actually he always answered my query about that
>(and i see him in person) at our local contest and dx club mtgs)
>by saying he personally was not schooled in windows pgming
>and had no intention of getting that way.
>
>fyi a few months i understand a thrid party approached tree abt
>taking tr too windows environment but after they looked into it
>they backed away becuz the cost/benefit analysis including mkt
>size etc. did not make sense....i think they estimated something
>like $100k or so cost to do it! ........
>
>i say agn wl is headed in the right direction and will probably win
>mkt share (if it hasn't already) from any dos based software at least
>for the massess of casual ops...... afterall look wat it did to wf1b rtty
>sw which was the "cats ass" at one time!! de w7gg
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