David Cramer wrote:
I've decided that my personal solution to the risk of future boxing is
to unsubscribe from this list. I don't think the Chautauqua attendees
who happily support Adobe's refusal to continue with Mac versions intend
to sound condescending. But it does leak out, and I have better things
to do with my time than read it.
Clearly we interpreted their comments differently - I didn't think they
sounded condescending at all. Besides, if you don't even think they're
doing it on purpose, does it really merit getting that steamed up about?
It puzzles me how anyone on this list can have missed noticing Adobe's
obvious inability to understand FrameMaker or have anything remotely
resembling a logical policy with regard to its development. So I have to
admit it baffles me to hear anyone from the Chautauqua say that dropping
Mac support is totally understandable just because some dough-heads in
Adobe marketing claim to have analyzed anything beyond their own rear ends.
So despite the fact that Adobe:
o is a large, well-established company
o has access to trend and market information that you may not
o has a responsibility to it's shareholders to be profitable
o understands the cost/benefit ratios of supporting various platforms
o probably strives to support the majority of users as best they can
they're no match for you when it comes to devising what is or isn't
logical policy. You must be one smart guy - it's little wonder your time
is too valuable to spend ready posts that you interpret as being
unintentionally condescending.
Please don't bother responding to my frustration. I'm unsubscribing
after this message is sent.
That's why I've sent it to your personal address. I've also sent it to
Framers because I think there's a message for everyone. We non-Mac users
do feel sorry for the fact that you've lost your platform support, but
we've all got to be realistic. If Adobe asked us whether we would prefer
them to put FrameMaker resources into a) supporting the Mac platform, or
b) improving the Windows version and looking at Linux support, our
sympathy would melt like an ice cream in the sun in favour of our own
self-interests. Surely you know that's true?
Nobody's dancing on your grave, but the decision has been made and I
have no reason to think that it'll be changed in the near future. At
some point, you're just going to have to get over it. Sorry, but that's
life.
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Regards,
Marcus Carr email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Einstein
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