Re: Basic questions on technical writing

["Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>]

Mostly to tweak Guy (who frequently views with alarm the latest news from
India), I wrote:

> > Wow, the FM development team is going to grow by 50%!
> That's great news!
> > Sounds like Adobe has big plans for FM8. :-)

John Posada, who is much more observant than I, replied:

> That release is dated 2002. It says it will grow by that
> much in 6 months. That should be by last May.
>
> Has it?

Oops, I didn't notice the date. Well, the hiring could still have been aimed
at FM8, assuming that it's a really big project (Unicode support? XML
round-tripping? major interface enhancements?).

Or maybe all those new people have been hurrying to finish up 7.1, and we'll
be able to judge their work in a few weeks. :-)

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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Voyant Technologies, Inc.
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