Fw: [WriteLog] Curious?? (long)

Billy Cox aa4nu@ix.netcom.com
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:38:14 -0600


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