[Papyrus-L] Important Papyrus news

[Neil S. Harris]

This is very disappointing, especially given Dave's comments that the "legal
situation has nothing to do with the future or the well-being of RSD. Its
outcome will have no effect on anything of importance to any of you."

It's disappointing partially because Papyrus for Windows had the potential
to be a really good application, but also because I feel deceived.

Neil S. Harris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Goldman, Research Software Design"
<dave at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com>
To: <papyrus-l at rsd.com>
Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2001 1:26 PM
Subject: [Papyrus-L] Important Papyrus news


> The Good News
> --------------
> The legal situation that has prevented me from discussing Research
Software
> Design company plans is now resolved.
>
> This was a lawsuit filed against us by a company that claimed the right to
> use our <rsd.com> domain name. Their case was without merit, but the
nature
> of the legal system is such that after both sides had spent an absurd
> amount of time and money, we finally reached a settlement in which that
> company will next year buy the <rsd.com> domain name from us.
>
>
> The Neutral News
> ----------------
> We are changing our domain name from <rsd.com> to
> <ResearchSoftwareDesign.com>. This applies both to our address on the Web
> and to our e-mail addresses.
>
> <rsd.com> will continue to work correctly through June 2002. However, you
> should now change your bookmarks and address books to use
> <ResearchSoftwareDesign.com> so that you will avoid difficulties in
> reaching us in the future.
>
>
> The Bad News
> ------------
> Research Software Design no longer plans to develop further versions of
> Papyrus.
>
> We have been working for the past several years on a full Windows version
> of Papyrus. Unfortunately, we no longer have the resources to continue
this
> project, which remains far from completion.
>
> We also have no current plans to produce a native Macintosh OS X version
of
> Papyrus, nor a Linux version.
>
> We will continue to sell and support the current editions of Papyrus --
> Version 7.0.16c for DOS/Windows and Version 8.0.10 for Macintosh.
>
>
> -- Dave Goldman (dave at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com)
>
>    Research Software Design            The PAPYRUS Bibliography System
>    617 SW Hume Street
>    Portland OR 97219-4458 (U.S.A.)     503-796-1368, fax 503-452-8920
>
>    Technical Support: support at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
>      Other Questions: info at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
>                  Web: http://www.ResearchSoftwareDesign.com/
>
>
>
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