Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "px3n120x"
<px3n120x@y...> wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Editor P.O.V.
Image Service" 
> <editor@p...> wrote:
> > px3n120x wrote:
> > 
This is probably the only reasonable answer I've read here. This
debate is not getting anywhere and is -in fact- getting out of the line!
You use the OS that you own and you use it with what you have
available for it. And if what you have doesn't suit your needs, it's
time for you to look for other solutions, be it being a multiplatform
user (which I am) or whatever. Argueing wont solve your problems at
all. Actions will! And further more, if it all comes down to a budget
problem... it's time to get CREATIVE



> > >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"