Re: A2Central News

In article <apple22-699D53.09270615092006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Greg Buchner <apple22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <eLudnUzmSa_yaZXYnZ2dnUVZ_qWdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am also a Windows user
and I'm okay with that. When I develop an application, I'd like to see it
ported to other platforms, to give even more people the benifit of using it.

It's good to see that you'd like to see apps ported to other platforms.

When a Mac user develops an application, the attitude is "It'll be ported to
Windows over my dead body."

Do you not realize that there's loads of Windows programmers who are the
exact same way about Macs? Even when there's a programmer willing to
sign any type of agreement and do the program on his own time.

Maybe us Mac users tend to be like that because there's a goodly portion
of the Windows world tends to dump on us...

......and maybe Windows users tend to be like that because there's an
overwhelmingly portion of the Mac world tend to dump on them.....

That's what happen when people makes a particular computing environment
their religion instead of their tool.....

Greg B.

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