Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V. Image Service" 
<editor@p...> wrote:
> px3n120x wrote:
> 
> >Since you think you know better, why not start your own win32 software company 
to 
> >satisfy that huge market you talk about and fill your pockets at the same time. 
> >  
> >
> SNIP
> 
> > 
> >Missed market opportunity? Arrogance?
> >  
> >
> 
> [As for your name calling and personal attack upon me I'd be VERY 
> careful about crossing that line on this list.. Antonis and Martin have 
> a history of little tolerance for such behavior on this list.. If you 
> want to engage in personal  invective feel free to e-mail me offlist and 
> I'll gladly respond in kind..]

Nothing personal and didn't call you anything but in this day and age when there are 
zillions of choices of both platforms and software for you-name-it, to hear yet more 
dissatisfaction about why this or that is not available on my platform (as if it should),  
is mind bugling. If you use a Mac as you say below I just don't see the problem.
Unless your point is that Widows compatibility is a must for every developer which I'm 
sure many of them would disagree with.

> 
> OTOH:  I'm not wholly surprised by the passion shown or the way this is 
> taken personally  by some in discussing this topic.  There seems to be, 
> among some Mac-o-philes at least, a tendency to over-the-top defenses of 
> products that are offered only on  Mac OS's - an attitude you rarely see 
> among Windoze users (I have and do use BOTH OS's - and have equally 
> castigated vendors for dropping Mac OS support, or failing to offer 
> products in Mac versions that had particular use or no competing/similar 
> product type offerings in the Mac market - I also do use Linux and have 
> even participated in BETA'ing commercial products for the graphics 
> market ported to Linux - so, I'm no OS pig/snob).  In thinking about 
> this, it may be an outgrowth of the frustration of many Mac users at the 
> vast amount of product offered only for WinTel - a kind of OS-based 
> "good for you.. see what we deal with all the time?"..  The fact is, it 
> doesn't change the economics of the decision.  I'd ask defenders and 
> current users of OPM/IJC to step back for a moment and separate the 
> economics from the OS issues.. This is not a Mac vs. WinTel issue, so 
> let's not turn it into a nasty little subset of that debate. It's about 
> whether one company is going to maintain fidelity with their press 
> release and product pronouncements. It's about what effect a deviation 
> from promises made might have for them and the broader market they might 
> serve,  as well as what effect those same decisions could have upon the 
> OS base they ALREADY serve.   If you use OPM/IJC, ask yourself this: "is 
> it better for end-users if more inkset vendors/manufacturers support the 
> product more broadly, and is that support more or less likely without a 
> WinTel version?"
> 
> The broader the vendor/manufacturer support, the better for ALL users in 
> the B&W digital niche market.
>  
> 
>  
> Keith Krebs
> 
> "Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
> User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
> Publications), at:
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
>  
> "For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
> guys"