Proprietary Subscription Software: was Photoshop

[Steve Litt]

Check out VimOutliner. The first thing to do is change the precommand from "\\" to
".." It was changed by the maintainer after the maintainer after me to fulfill some
Debian mandate. I might fork the darn thing and bring it back to its true roots.

When I designed VimOutliner, I made sure to include every feature of the Grandview
outliner, except clone headlines, which can't be done with a Vim engine.

SteveT

On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 12:24 -0700, Joe Neglia via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Good to see another Grandview user here!  I originally used PC-Outline that
> was included with WordStar all those years ago, but later found Grandview
> was an upgraded version.  I run it now under DosBox.  (WordStar, too, when
> I really need to write seriously.)  I'm really surprised that there is
> still no open source outlining program similar to Grandview.
> 
> *Thank goodness* Linux can run those old proprietary programs.
> 
> I would rather have a bag of mosquitoes tied around my head than subscribe
> to online proprietary software.  No way I'm going to be chained to a
> treadmill.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:09 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2022-08-30 at 08:56 -0700, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> > > Adobe doesn't sell CS6 anymore; they're all about the subscription.
> > > 
> > 
> > What's really cool about the proprietary subscription model is that once
> > you're not
> > subscribed, you've lost your data. Who wouldn't enjoy a situation like
> > that?
> > 
> > I don't want any of you to think I'm trying to get sympathy, but in 1990 I
> > started
> > using a spectacular drawing program called Micorgrafx Windows Draw (MGX
> > Draw), and
> > made hundreds of drawings with it. In the late 1990's MGX Draw was sold to
> > a company
> > operating out of a PO box, who promptly sunk it but wouldn't release the
> > source.
> > Unfortunately for me, I still had the install disk, so even today I have
> > the option
> > of running MGX Draw on Wine in order to access my drawings from the
> > 1990's. Totally
> > unacceptable. WordPerfect 5.1 is worse: Being a DOS program all I need to
> > do is copy
> > the WordPerfect 5.1 install directory to my Linux drive, run it under
> > FreeDOS, and
> > access all my 1980's Wordperfect files. This is a horrible invasion of the
> > past.
> > 
> > When it came to an outline processor called Grandview, I solved this
> > problem even
> > though Grandview wasn't a subscription. I lost the install CD and the
> > executable
> > tree, so now I cannot look at my Grandview files at all. This is how
> > computing
> > should work: Data over 7 years old must be discarded!
> > 
> > Subscription software solves this problem elegantly. Imagine your joy when
> > you go to
> > open an old file, only to find that you no longer have an executable with
> > which to
> > look at the file. Then you might as well no longer back it up, keeping
> > your backups
> > smaller.
> > 
> > I just love proprietary subscription software!
> > 
> > SteveT
> > 
> > 
> > 
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