Well, thanks for all the info/insight. - I still "dislike" Microsoft (everything pretty much about MS).
- I will wait for EmailerX. When it's available, I will buy it. Oh well, since you don't want those chips, I guess one day it will go into a trash can and get emptied out. You have a good one! Stay Cool! Shenan >07/27/2005 11:45 AM chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Where do I send some CPU chip to you? I have some of the chips that I >>keep looking at them, and they look cool, but I don't know and have no >>use of them. They are Pentium chips, 486, 68x40, EPROM, Apple boot ROM, >>PC BIOS, G3 raw cpu, PPC cpu, and many others that I don't know what they >>are for but if I find them, they are yours. So, if you want to give me >>your mailing/shipping address, I can pack up a box and ship all those to >>you that I know I won't do anything with them besides just looking at >>them. I believe all of them work, except I don't need them. > >I have no need for them, nor the storage space to hold them... so don't >worry about sending them to me. > >>Chris, did you know that ever since Microsoft bought $300 million worth >>of Apple stock (MS made a bundle out of that deal) back then (don't >>remember which year), all the machines shipped from Apple has this >>strange arrangement of file icons in the "Internet" folder? > >I believe the number was $100 million of stock (which they then sold for >something like $300 million). And yes, making IE and Outlook Express the >default web browser and email client for the Mac OS was part of the deal. >No one ever said it wasn't. In fact, it was fully admitted to. > >MS bought $100 million of Apple stock as a show of faith in Apple >Computer. They also agreed to continue to update and support MS Office >for the Mac for no less than 5 years. In exchange, Apple agreed to call >off the lawyers they had been sicking on MS for years, and make Outlook >Express the default email client and Internet Explorer the default web >browser. > >As to the positioning of the icons in the folders, I'm sure that was the >finer points of the deal as hashed out by the lawyers after the fact. I'm >sure it wasn't by accident that IE and Outlook were up front and obvious >and everything else was hidden away. > >But that doesn't change the fact that Claris was NOT killed to keep MS >happy. Nothing Claris was doing mattered to MS. MS didn't care if >MacWrite continued or Emailer, or MacDraw, or MacPaint, or Hypercard or >ClarisWorks. Oddly, the one application MS did care about was FileMaker >Pro, and that continued along without a problem. > >Everything else that was killed off was done so for money reasons. The >other products were just not profitable and served no strategic point to >keeping alive (like ClarisWorks did). Emailer was killed simply because >there was no profit in keeping it alive. The fact that it would go up >against Mail.app was just the nail in its coffin. > >Apple knew the direction they were heading. It was OS X. And in order to >keep Emailer alive, MAJOR work would need to be done to make it OS X >native. Plus legal headaches over things like the AOL gateway. Emailer >was simply going to cost them far too much money to keep it alive. There >was no shot of it having a good return on its investment. > >On the other hand, NeXTStep already had a nice email client... it was >called Mail. It ported nicely to OS X (I ran it originally on the OS X >for Intel build I had WAY WAY back before OS X was released to the >public, back when it was pretty much NeXTStep with an Apple Menu). Mail >let them break away from the old and embrace the new. > >Honestly, MS had nothing to do with Emailer being killed. All MS wanted >was Outlook to be the default email client, and they got that... from >there, they didn't care in the least if Emailer was still supported, >sold, bundled or otherwise. > >>Oh well, now you get to work on the "i-KrisMailer" program that we all >>will be using in the future now, you hear? > >Nope, very doubtful anyone here will be using whatever email client I >write. I won't be writing it for public use. It will be heavily tweaked >to serve my needs. Best case I may release parts of it as GNU and people >may be able to pick it up that way... but I can't even say for sure that >will happen. > >If you want an OS X replacement for Emailer, then you need to keep an eye >on the EmailerX project instead. There are a few people from this group >that are working on an OS X native replacement (I've dropped out of the >project due to a conflict of interest. It wasn't fair for me to >participate when the plans are to make EmailerX a commercial product, and >I have plans to write my own client that may or may not be released as >open source. There would be too much of a risk of me accidentally >stealing ideas from the EmailerX project and thus possibly hurting their >market... so I dropped out to be fair to them, and for my own >protection... by not being involved with EmailerX I can honestly say >anything I do was my own idea.) > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
