Talk:Sophocles (software)

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The article says that:

Company Buyout On March 21, 2008, Sophocles was purchased by a third party.[2]

However, this strictly speaking may or may not be true.

I believe this statement violates the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOR, as it's not verifiable.

We don't know what happened at all per the reference [2]. The rest of the statement

By late April 2008, its website was shutdown, and Tim Sheehan, the software's creator, could not be reached for comment.

is accurate as far as I know.

This is very frustrating of course, due to the DRM nature of the software.

Jgwinner (talk) 21:57, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The link leads to a post by Roland Straud, an admin, where he stated: "The most recent activity of the company that we know of is that someone purchased Sophocles on March 21." I appreciate your quest for accuracy, and if you have any better source, please refute it, but this is all I had to go on when I asked if the article should be reopened in light of the rumors I heard. Note that I didn't include supposing, but sourced a directly verifiable statement. MMetro (talk) 05:35, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

--JGwinner (talk) 22:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's possible that we finally found out what happened, although I don't know if this Tim Sheehan is the same or not as the owner/inventor of Sophocles.

On http://cdeemer2007.blogspot.com/2008/04/sophocles-again.html

it states he passed away.

At: http://www.tributes.com/show/Timothy-Sheehan-87655215 it looks like he may have, although it's not a full obit page.

Wow, I need to learn wikipedia, not sure I put the above update in properly. Please be gentle :)

Website no longer active

The www.sophocles.net website is no longer active. The article needs an update with info regarding what happened to the company. John Hyams (talk) 16:59, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but we are trying to verify what we put up and that info is hard to come by. Please help. MMetro (talk) 04:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What Is Needed

Someone needs to make a file conversion program for sophocles script files. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.174.7.92 (talk) 07:56, 27 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by MMetro (talk • contribs) [reply]