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Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison?

From Doc O'Leary <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison?
Date 2015-04-07 02:38 +0000
Organization Subsume Technologies, Inc.
Message-ID <mfvfvu$cpl$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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For your reference, records indicate that 
Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> On 2015-04-06 11:58, sctvguy1 wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:39:31 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:
> >
> > That is what I cannot understand: why would a major OS have almost NO NNTP
> > clients?
> 
> 'cause everyone wants to make money doing it.

More correctly, they just don’t want to lose a ton of money doing it.
Development isn’t free.  Support isn’t free.

> Panic apparently were not 
> making enough so they've dropped it.

My read remains that Unison was a labor of love from someone inside Panic,
and they tried to make it available to other people at a great price for
all the features offered (provided the features they added were the same
ones you wanted), but the market just wasn’t big enough to cover the
increased support burden.  I doubt they ever came even *close* to breaking
even, never mind “making enough”.

> Recently someone suggested he would come up with a very nice up to date 
> usenet reader but wanted crowdsource funding up front.  Not many takers.

That guy was an idiot.  He knew Usenet hasn’t been popular for *years* and
yet he still spent his time writing an alpha version *actually* up front.
Now he has nothing to show for his effort except getting a good chuckle
out of how many times this thread keeps popping up.

-- 
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Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 05:00 +0000
  Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-05 23:19 -0700
  Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-05 23:35 -0700
    Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:25 +0000
      Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-06 11:39 -0400
        Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:58 +0000
          Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-06 15:51 -0400
            Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com> - 2015-04-07 02:38 +0000
          Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 09:45 -0400
            Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-07 14:35 +0000
              Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-07 12:09 -0400
      Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-06 09:17 -0700
        Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 18:42 +0000
          Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-06 14:07 -0700
            Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-06 16:04 -0700
              Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-06 16:29 -0700
                Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-06 17:23 -0700
  Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-06 05:12 -0700
    Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-06 11:19 -0400
      Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:27 +0000
        Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-06 09:41 -0700
          Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2015-04-06 18:55 +0100
            Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-06 16:05 -0700
      Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-04-06 09:11 -0700
  Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-04-06 11:17 -0400
    Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-06 15:27 +0000
    Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2015-04-06 16:07 +0000
      Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-04-06 09:43 -0700
      Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Robert Grimes <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-21 00:44 -0500
        Re: Should I go ahead and get the last Unison? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-21 05:50 +0000

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