At 21:51 04/04/2001 -0400, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>Stuart Ballard wrote:
> >
> > "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
> > >
> > > 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".
> >
> > Utter crap. I've seen *multiple* posts from Ben Bucksch, who for all
> > intents and purposes *is* Beonex, saying that they would love to do a
> > Mac version but don't have the *resources*. As far as I know, Beonex are
> > currently making more-or-less no money on their distribution, and don't
> > have a Mac machine to build on. If you can donate a Mac, or offer the
> > use of a Mac by some kind of remote access, or manage the build on Mac
> > for Beonex yourself, I know that Ben would be delighted to hear from you
> > (because I've read multiple posts in which he's said so in as many
> > words). Don't misrepresent his position.
> >
> > I'm not arguing that it is *right* that Beonex can't produce a Mac
> > distribution, but a distribution that is given away for free simply
> > can't be expected to have unlimited resources! A Mac capable of building
> > Mozilla would cost well over 1000 dollars, and what is apparently a
> > one-person operation giving Mozilla distributions away for free is
> > highly unlikely to have 1000 dollars floating around to spend on a build
> > machine.
> >
> > Stuart.
>
>Stuart you didn't quote the whole paragraph. I did say that at the time
>it was said; I was only about second person to make the request.
>
>And by the way. Why is it a stretch of Dollars to buy a Mac, and not a
>PC. Can they purchase a a decent PC for $99.95 including software.
>
>You can get a new iMac for less than $1000.00. A Mac doesn't cost the
>price of a Cray Super Computer.
Which would be an inadequate platform to build on, also you have to add on
the development software the time needed to become productive on the
platform and OS and with the different tools, etc, etc. An Intel/AMD
workstation with software costs me around two grand sterling to put
together for Win32 development, I can recoup that cost with around 1 week's
work. There is no requirement for Mac development here in the UK, and
there never really has been so there is no way I could recoup the investment.
Its a similar story over most of the planet, that has nothing really to do
with Microsoft, Apple after the II was always a niche market with a high
entry price for development.
>Apple has got Desktop Mac's down to almost the same price of equiv PC's.
Which isn't suitable for a developer.
Simon
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