And so it came to pass that David W. Fenton spake:
>I don't see how this changes anything whatsoever. The location of >applications and documents ought to be a configurable choice. To *not* >make it configurable is authoritarian, and that's so antithetical to >everything Apple has ever professed to stand for that I can't believe >that it would be so. Actually they are quite an authoritarian company at times. They are the only PC computer company that controls both the hardware and software and they have done so jealously (apart from a short period of clones). Steve Jobs decides that Macs should be put to sleep rather than shut down, and now the power key has disappeared from the keyboard where it was easy to get at. Apple decides that USB is the way to go even though no one has even seen it before and then all mac computers dump the serial port and take on this new interface. Sometimes Apple tries to decides what is good for you, even though it knows you may not like it at first. Fortunately it often gets it right and quickly takes us places that an open ended system such as Wintel never could have in anywhere near the amount of time (eg: the Laser printer, Scalable fonts, the Apple adoption of USB and Firewire ports, Desktop Movie editing). Other times they do things that are plain frustrating (like the proprietary ADC monitor port and the removal of the analog mic jack). -- Rocky Road - in Oz "Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest, for a shining planet known as Earth." _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
