posted October 16, 2002 02:21 PM               

18 October 2001: "An Xtools 1.1 is in the offing. It will conform to XFree86 4.1 and address various shortcomings, including improving the display engine.
-Anita"

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16 January 2002: "Sorry for the lack of Tenon activity on this board. We have suffered a major network outage because of our ISP. After co-locating our server I have not been able to log in to post replies.

Anyway,
I want to assure all users here that a 1.1 update is forthcoming. The latest version of XFree86 has been compiled along with a complete set of libGLU tools.

Our developers have been slowed down by the network outage as well. Xtools is NOT a dead product. We are working hard to address all of the issues of the previous version. We do not want to release it before these bugs are worked out. Please stay tuned for more information. --Stephie"

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25 April 2002: "We have not given up on Xtools. We did have an extremely long, unplanned delay in development. We can say with assurance that an Xtools 1.1 is coming and that will be the version burned on CD. And you and others will receive this and a hard copy manual for only shipping charges.

We have an internal version of 1.1 that some have requested. We have been extremely remiss in keeping you all aprised of our situation. We expect visible progress now and we'll post that progress on this discussion board. -Anita"

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22 May 2002: "Now about Tenon giving up on Xtools. We have not abandoned Xtools. We had some internal problems and serious resource limitations which resulted in an interruption in Xtools development. As I said previously, we are now back on track and Xtools 1.1 is progressing. I don't want to give a date until we have hard information, but we have been criticized for not being forthcoming, so we will be quick to pass Xtools 1.1 information along.

Meanwhile, don't hesitate to request Xtools 1.1a1, which supports XFree86 4.2. You can use the updated XFree foundation with 1.0.4 as well. Just send the request to info@tenon.com. -Anita"

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31 May 2002: "We expect updates to this [1.1a1] in the very near future. Keep us posted on your testing and we'll include you in the updates. -Tenon Sales"

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21 August 2002: "Hi, My name is Erik Lotspeich and I am the new lead developer on the Xtools project here at Tenon. I have every intention of improving the Xtools product by eliminating the stability issues and producing a Jaguar-ready version of Xtools.

The development team here at Tenon is making Xtools a priority and we are going to work as hard as possible to make Xtools the best X Server product for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server. Thanks, Erik."

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posted October 19, 2002 05:17 AM               

1) Refund our payments for xtools

or

2) We gain ownership of all xtools source code and officially/legally donate it to the xfree86/xonx/oroborosx people for incorporation into the latest releases (if anything is useful).

There is no doubt that Tenon would lose such a suit since their user agreement/sales contract or whatever you call it clearly states that we will receive a CD and manual in X amount of time, and it was never received. This goes beyond any implied warranties regarding shipping functional software.

posted October 29, 2002 08:47 AM               

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Originally posted by morris:
Tenon should get out the cake and candles. It will soon be 1 year from the first announcement that this somewhat vaporous product (it's more than vaporware, but not much) was announced as "in the offing". Here is my catalog of official announcements made in this forum and by email:.......

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