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Dejal discontinues Classic apps, posts free versions

updated 02:30 pm EST, Tue February 3, 2004

Dejal posts Classic apps


Dejal Systems today announced that all of its are now available free of charge. The company also said that all of its products for Mac OS 9 and earlier (except for QuickEncrypt) have been discontinued: "We are concentrating our efforts on Mac OS X products nowadays. But we know that a number of users still haven't made the leap to Mac OS X for one reason or another, and still find these products useful. So it seemed the right thing to do to give them away to the Mac community." Dejal offers many different sound, text, and system utilities for Classic.

Products include SndConverter Pro (convert/edit system sounds), SndPlayer (play batches of system sounds); SndCataloguer (catalog system sounds); TextMerge, TextConverter and TextSplitter for manipulating text files; Deleter for file deletion; font suitcase utilities, Resource Leech (Extract resources into the data fork of separate; and Dejal Desktop Utilities (collection of eight control panels, extensions, and FKEYs).


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    02/03, 02:42pm | report spam | Reply |

    Nice company

    How long did it take apple to release 7.5.3 for free?

    lol- maybe in 10 years OS 8 or 8.5 will be free.

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    02/03, 02:47pm | report spam | Reply |

    This is cool...

    Now if all companies acted this responsibly...

    I know someone who bought a $15,000 add-on for Adobe Illustrator only to find out it wasn't compatible with Illustrator CS and couldn't buy a legitimate copy of Illustrator 10.

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    02/03, 03:05pm | report spam | Reply |

    RE: This is cool...

    That reminds me of MacLinkPlus. They sent me an email "For a limited time upgrade to MacLinkPlus 13 for 19.95$!" Of course, I was stupid and bought it, then one week later I got this email "For a limited time upgrade to MacLinkPlus 14 for 39.95$!" I was pretty pissed. The upgrade to 14 would have cost the same as if I hadn't bought 13.

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    02/03, 03:22pm | report spam | Reply |

    Yea really.

    Companies should sell their current version at full price, their next latest version at a discounted price, and all previous versions should be made free. (Or some similar system.) Make the above only for non-commercial use of the software, so companies can't abuse the system by waiting a few versions. IE companies always have to pay a full or discounted price, but individual users can use the software for free.

    It would also be nice if companies RETAINED the availablity of their old software versions. Even if they drop support for a program, still they should make it available to those that need it for older computers (with obviously no warranty or support).

    I agree with the above post. Companies seem to want to pretend that their older software never even existed. WHY don't they sell their older software for a discounted price? It would make a h*** of a lot more sense then someone having to go out and pirate the software over the net just because they can't buy it legitimately.

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    02/03, 03:58pm | report spam | Reply |

    Apple is cool

    with its old software. Their archives of old OS and various utilities is readily available, nicely organized, and free.

    Can you even begin to envision Micro$hit providing such a bounty to those who would like to keep old PeeCees running? (are there any?) How about that old DOS 6.2 update, please? No?

    And Apple continues to offer its archive of software for the Apple II.

    Apple kicks a**!

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    02/03, 05:08pm | report spam | Reply |

    What's in a name?

    Can we agree on a common name for the Redmond monopoly? The best one so far is Micros**t.
    Just use Micros**t and the reader is left to fill in the blanks. It's not rude unless you make it that way, thus it should offend only the easily offended.

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