On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Brian Stevens wrote:

>> On the other hand, Apple and most software companies are quite happy 
>> with the "no more Classic" situation...
> This is also true for smaller software companies (and many FBers like 
> me)  who are one and two-people companies. After switching to 
> development of X-only applications my maintenance and support workload 
> declined.
>
I don't see any reason to be happy about the situation. Software 
companies can decide to drop support for classic applications at any 
time. You don't need Apple to tell you when to do it.  Apple's decision 
to abandon classic is going to cause thousands of older programs to 
become useless. Think of the hundreds of thousands of man hours of 
effort that went in to creating those programs. This might be a good 
business decision for Apple, but considering all the programs that will 
be lost it is a terrible blow the community of Macintosh users.

-Joe