QMate question

[Linas Vepstas]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:43:39PM -0400, Paul Lussier was heard to remark:
> 
> In a message dated: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:30:16 CDT
> Linas Vepstas said:
> 
> >> I've been using Qmate for years, and though I love it, it's=20
> >> completely dependant upon Windows.
> >
> >You'd do us a service if you called qmate cust support and grilled them
> >about linux support ...
> 
> It's a shareware app for the Palm Pilot written/"supported" by one 
> guy.  There is essentially no support, and rumor has it that he's not 
> really developing the app any more :(

<lecture>
Ahh, the classic achilles heel of shareware.  guy writes program, thinks
he'll make big $$ as people mail in checks.  But checks don't come in.
Looses interest, moves on.   With open source, at least you've got the
source after the original developer lost interest.
</lecture>


--linas