On 5/12/04, Chris wrote:
>Actually, my mouse issue and being wet issue were just convienient
>excuses for me to blame why I was once again ranting. The truth is, I
>rant all the time. I like to do it, I enjoy it. I don't worry too much
>about offending people, because, well, frankly, I'm not a nice guy.
>
>:-)
Yeah, except for the information you provide for list members here, of
course! Hey, I never said you were *always*, in every case, a nice guy...
;-)
But those of us on the list can very well tolerate your occasional rants
in exchange (sorry for the pun - well, maybe not!) for your assistance
which you provide us all.
:-)
>
>>But I know a computer hacker whiz guy
>>(electrical engineer) and when I told him about Emailer Talk he said he
>>quit Emailer when OSX came along and does not think that the product of a
>>few programmers can equal that of a thousand like Microsoft. And this
>>guy is an extreme Mac person.
>
>This is, very nearly, entirely WRONG. Generally speaking, in an available
>market, the products made by the little guys are substantially better
>then those made by the large companies.
/GEEZER GEEK ON
If we want to go REALLY far back, there was the Apple II program
AppleWriter, written by one man (Paul Lutus, IIRC), which offered macro
programability, search and replace, and lots more features in the early
eons of Appledom, maybe even before VisiCalc came out!
>Very few great products start from a large company. They always start
>small, and get bought out, and then dry up and go stagnant (or suffer
>from feature creep where they grow and grow without worrying about fixing
>the last set of new features).
Yeah, let's hear it for feeping creatures!
;-)
Jim Rohde
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
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