Comments on: The End of NetNewsWire? http://ascarter.net/blog/2005/10/19/the-end-of-netnewswire/ coding in the rain Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brent Simmons http://ascarter.net/blog/2005/10/19/the-end-of-netnewswire/#comment-5 Brent Simmons Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:10:17 +0000 http://ascarter.net/blog/2005/10/19/the-end-of-netnewswire/#comment-5 You wrote: "He basically bought an entire company to wrap around his product." That's very much how I felt about it! Of course, I didn't really -- but I invested my company in another company, so that I'd be able to better concentrate on working on NetNewsWire and be able to do cool features I wouldn't be able to do otherwise. (My programming time has been so scarce for a while now, and this deal changes that, which is good for everybody.) Definitely read John Gruber's piece, if you haven't already: http://daringfireball.net/2005/10/the_life You wrote: “He basically bought an entire company to wrap around his product.”

That’s very much how I felt about it! Of course, I didn’t really — but I invested my company in another company, so that I’d be able to better concentrate on working on NetNewsWire and be able to do cool features I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise. (My programming time has been so scarce for a while now, and this deal changes that, which is good for everybody.)

Definitely read John Gruber’s piece, if you haven’t already: http://daringfireball.net/2005/10/the_life

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