Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!uflorida!novavax!proxftl!bill From: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: free versions of complex software (Re: So let's talk about FSF) Message-ID: <793@proxftl.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 88 17:44:24 GMT References: <720@proxftl.UUCP> <14061@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <756@proxftl.UUCP> <1@elgar.UUCP> <780@proxftl.UUCP> <14420@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) Organization: Proximity Technology, Ft. Lauderdale Lines: 49 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <14420@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: : In article <780@proxftl.UUCP>, bill@proxftl (T. William Wells) writes: : >What I was saying is that, as time goes on, even if some people : >decide to do free spelling checkers, equivalent to ours, we will : >go on to do something different which, again, is probably beyond : >the current means and interests of those who write free software. : : No doubt. Your nihilism is disgusting. So is your ignorance. However, for those who are not so hopelessly devoid of sense: We do a spell checking system that works with a dozen languages, and that has the best spelling corrector around. It ports to essentially every system where there is a working C compiler and a disk. (And there is actually a version working without a disk in a Xerox typewriter.) We also have a spelling checker for typewriters that is in most of the typewriters that use an OEM spelling checker. It does most of the things our bigger spelling checker does, and some things slightly better. : What's next on your agenda? A grammar checker that actually parses your text. And that doesn't require something at least as large as a VAX to run. It runs on an IBM-PC/XT in under 128K. It already works, now all we have to do is to make it into a product. Coming soon to an OEM near you.... : Networked windowing systems? : : ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 Stupid man! Your ignorant sarcasm demonstrates your sickness. I hadn't responded to your inflammatory posting over in alt.individualism yet, because I have more important things to do. However, the gist of it would have been: welcome to my kill file. May you long enjoy the hell you make for yourself. --- Bill novavax!proxftl!bill