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http://www.macnn.com/articles/00/12/06/fetch.creator/

Fetch creator wins half a million dollars

updated 09:15 pm EST, Wed December 6, 2000

 
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Jon Winter notes that Jim Matthews, author of the popular, but now-dated, Mac FTP client Fetch, won $500,000 on tonight's episode of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" "He whipped through most of the questions and didn't use his lifelines until the very end. The last question, he asked the audience and they picked wrong. He wasn't sure so he took the half million and walked away."


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    wanna make a million?

    Hope he puts a good chunk of it into AAPL. Lifeline, indeed.

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    Hmmm....

    Having used fetch and then seeing a guy from Dartmouth, I starting thinking - well it turned out to be interesting indeed!

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    Outdated?

    Outdated? Says who? Sure it's not the most powerful FTP app out, but hey, it's simple, unbloated, and it works

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    I use it

    I use Mac FTP, its not that old

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    Why'd you tell us he won

    Its not on yet on the west coast, you guys (macnn) ruined it!

    You could have witheld this info for a couple hours...

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    Good for him

    that's pretty cool. I hope he doesn't spend it all in one place.

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    Not outdated

    They just released 4.0 for OS X, and promise a version for 9.

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    Yeah for Jim

    Jim has also contributed to several other software applications which are wonderful. http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/

    I've never met Jim in person, but on email lists he is always very nice and helpful. Congratulations to him!

    Here is a dartmouth page about his appearance: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/dec00/millionaire.html

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    Karma

    You write a program and give it away, you get $500,000.

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    Cool

    h*** ya. Now maybe he can hang out and pump out more freeware!

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