askSam dead?

Posted by Chris Murtland
Sep 11, 2013 at 11:40 AM

22111 wrote:

>Let’s put it bluntly: Whenever you need a real good program, spend 1,000
>dollars or more, and you will get it (if you are prepared to then spend
>considerable 3-digits figures each year for updates). If your task does
>not justify such expense, you have to live with programs missing
>mandatory features: Reliability and e-mail in AS, an overall tree, a
>decent editor or formatting in the tree in Ultra Recall… or wysiwyg in
>Connected Text.

Sorry, this all seems pretty inaccurate. I think you’re saying that high-dollar niche software is always better than low-cost general purpose software. But I don’t think I can pay $1000 for a program that is just like UR but has formatting in the tree or $1000 for a program that is just like CT except with WYSIWYG; those programs just don’t exist. And I don’t call either of those features mandatory, I call them extraneous. But something else I find mandatory would surely be extraneous to the next person.