This kills me....

Apple (Gill Amelio) bought NeXT in 1996 for the NeXTStep OS.  It  
seems it did not occur to some people that we were in for pretty  
radical change 10 years ago.

I realized even back then that some things would change for the  
better, but many of the things I loved about the then current Mac OS  
were probably going to disappear.  However, I had heard enough good  
things about NeXTStep that I was willing to give it a try.  And I  
haven't been disappointed.

  And my experience with Windows told me that I UNIX of one form or  
another (Mac OS X, BSD, or Linux) would be my OS of choice.

Scott Spencer
SJ3 Software
sj3@...


On Apr 4, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Kris Rutecki wrote:

> Hi,
> Can't find anything else on the web about  Classic on Windows.  
> Since Apple has Mr Jobs as CEO it manages to bring in
> profit, and nothing more. The market share is declining and one day  
> all that will be left of Apple Computer will be the iTunes store...
> If the Os9 is so obsolete then perhaps they should release the code  
> as Open Source and let others take over... No?
> Why not acknowledge that all that happened in the past was not all  
> bad and try to come up with a worthy solution?
> Windows, on the other hand, had gone down the path of trying to be  
> somewhat compatible with earlier DOS systems,
> and look how bad it must have hurt them... only 90% of the market.  
> Bahhh... now Apple has a whooping 3% share!?
> (Accountants should really not run HiTec companies - there is a  
> good book by Akio Morita on that topic.)
> This notion of throwing away years of work (Os9 and Os9  
> applications) into the garbage because it doesn't put any direct cash
> in the Apple's pocket is a misguided one. You have just thrown some  
> of my flimsy tools along with it and pitched a whole lot more
> that was done by other folks. Don't expect me to just stand there  
> and watch. Most of the other folks had the good sense to leave
> when Apple became greedy and stopped the clonning/licencing  
> business 10 years ago.
> I can't help but wonder when will FB release something that runs  
> under Windows?
> I am not buying any more Mac software.
> Kris
>
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