On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:55:23 -0400, Wilhelm Sanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

This is another late response to the new pricing scheme. As a user of the "Free 
Edition" I realize I don't have much standing to complain about the new pricing, but 
it does bring up a couple of questions for me. 

I am more than a hobbyist, but I am not a professional programmer. I have been working 
on a Cherokee dictionary for some months now. The hundred plus hours I have put into 
this dictionary is gratis. I am very low income, and and have not been able to afford 
the SBE. I expect to have this project ready for use in a few months, and will 
distribute if for free, because it is important to me to help save my tribe's language.

For this software to continue to be useful, I need cross-platform capability. Most 
education people and many writers, like me, use MacIntosh, but the majority of people 
who will use this dictionary are PC users. I have been thinking that if it went well, 
I could maybe scrape together enough to buy the SBE. With the new pricing there is no 
way I can afford to buy into cross-platform capability. 

I would like to continue to build Cherokee lanquage learning tools, but I guess I will 
have to find some other tool than Revolution. Or I will have to continue to use 
Revolution 2.0 free edition.

I don't know if there are others out there like me, and I know a company can't make 
decisions based on just a few users, but, nevertheless, I am truly disappointed. 


Duane Poncy

visit Elohi Gadugi: poetry, software, 
Cherokee culture and Native American rights.
http://dsaoregon.igc.org/tsalagi/

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