Re: [NTLK] Native installer for NCU and OS X Update

From: Deborah Mitchell (debbym1_at_mac.com)
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 17:25:15 PST


Excuse me, I don't think what I had to say was a cop-out. It was an
explanation of why things don't always move as quickly as some might
wish, and why $12 is a bargain basement price for the effort someone
would make to replace NCU.

And I don't think I imply that the platform is dead. I'm working on
some things, myself, that I'll be sharing when I get the intellectual
property issues sorted out. I've just ordered an Intel-based Mac; you
can be sure I'll make sure I can sync my Newt to it, if I have to
write the software myself.

Everyone in the community shares responsibility for the status quo,
not just programmers. We live in a supply-and-demand economy; if the
community displays sufficient demand for a product, someone will
develop it. What I was saying is that $12 is not, in my opinion, a
sufficient display of demand for the commodity in question.

> Yes, we need to "feel the pain" of programmers, but we must avoid
> using this
> as a cop-out for maintaining the status quo of complacency and
> developmental
> stagnation. For if we all truly believe that the Newton and its
> 3rd party
> developers are dead, then what are we doing here reading and/or
> posting to
> this list?
>
> --James Wages
>

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