Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
> "Simon P. Lucy" wrote:
>
>> At 20:02 03/04/2001 -0400, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>>
>>> I hope Simon's answer and the post that started it, was Tongue in Cheek.
>>
>> No I don't think so.
>>
>>
>>> But.... That's what I i knew all along. Evidently they don't get it.
>>>
>>> Who are you developing it For.
>>>
>>> Simon, and Asa yo use. I don't think so.
>>>
>>> It industry Hp, Netscape, Microsoft (well that's a stretch) Sun.
>>> Macromedia, Sony, JVC,
>>>
>>> amd for John and Jane Smith and their equivelents.
>>>
>>> In other word "END USERS". If not then you had better pack up your Bags
>>> and Go home.
>>
>> If I make a build for distribution then yes I'm interested in the target
>> market, that's the whole point of making the distribution. mozilla.org's
>> market largely includes those making distributions and not individual end
>> users. Because the UI (and most of the arguments are over UI), behaves in
>> one way on the mozilla.org reference build is no reason for it not to
>> behave differently on a different distribution, whether that's Netscape,
>> Nokia or whomever. Beonex.org's distribution aims to be as close to
>> mozilla.org as possible but be packaged for the end user. Beonex.com
>> though, might very well develop a distribution for an entirely different
>> market or corporate client and have significantly different features.
>
>
> While Beonex efforts are all well and good. They are targeting "only"
> the "Windows" Market.
>
> I've been in touch with them and the have stated unequivocally. "We have
> no interest at this time in developing a Mac version of Beonex".
>
> Of course at the time I contacted them, I think I may have been the
> second person to inquire about such.
>
> Its possible things have changed since then. But given the tone of the
> reponse the chances are "Slim" and "None"; and "Slim " left last week.
>
> Despite the hatered for the Mac platform, or at least the lame excuse we
> don't have enough bucks to invest in the hardware and software to
> develop; (I've gone over this in another thread)
Yes, shame on Ben Bucksh for not spending a couple thou' on Macs for
development! Shame on him for not having an unlimited budget! Shame
shame! ;)
I like how you immediately equate "I neither have the time nor the money
to develop for the Mac" with "I hate the Mac platform". That's very
creative logic.
