Re: My two cents

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Outliners.com Message ID: 204

Posted by jslade
1999-08-23 10:13:29

My sincere apology.

I reported the information as i have pieced it together. For about one year, symantec misled customers about the development status of Q&A for the Mac, MORE, GrandView, and other products. EMAILs were not returned. No direct answers were ever given.

I have thought for years that More was programmed in Pascal, and then ported to C.

Symantec tech support actually told me that More was dead because all Pascal programming projects were cancelled!

We were told that all Pascal Programmers were let go.

The problem rests with disinformation given by Symantec.

Joel Slade

>——-Original Message——-
> From: Brad Pettit [mailto:

]
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:01 PM
> To:

> Subject: Corrections
>
>
> Some corrections regarding your message on Discuss.Outliners.Com:
>
> > It is very unfortunate that Symantec fired it’s entire
> pascal programming
> > department before they had an opportuinty to complete Q&A
> for Windows and
> > bring GrandView to the windows enivronment.
>
> First: Symantec didn’t fire it’s pascal programmers. We all
> went on to work
> on many other projects. Every one that left did so
> voluntarily, as far as I
> know.
>
> Second: We DID ship Q&A for Windows (if that qualifies as
> “complete”), the
> only shipping Bedrock application. I worked on it after MORE
> was cancelled.
> What we did not ship was Q&A for Macintosh.
> Also, NEITHER program was in Pascal, so that has nothing to
> do with it. Q&A
> for Windows was in C++, and Q&A for Macintosh was in C and
> moving to C++.
>
> It’s inappropriate to mislead people with false statements
> such as yours.
>
>—Brad
>

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