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	This is in response to Duane Williams' (dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu) article
of Dec. 9:

	I agree veery strongly -- it is the smaller, third-party developer or
hobbyist or college student that needs the most support. While there are some
fine development systems out there (to wit, Lightspeed C and Lightspeed
Pascal) and the situation is much better for kitchen-table developers than it
used to be, the fact is that it's the professionals wwith money to spend and
marketable results to offer (or promise) that end up getting the lion's share
of support. For example: to be a Registered Developer and receive direct
phone and e-mail tech support from Apple costs $595 a year. I personally
cannot afford that. I'm a Certified Developer, which costs nothing. I have
received monthly mailings from Apple, lately containing Technotes, but thsoe
are available just about anywhere. (They are freely distributed, yes?)
Otherwise, the advantages are nil. 

"Or is it that Apple just doesn't care about them, because they are less
likely to directly help Apple sell Macs?"

I would suspect it's the latter. While Apple certainly could help more, the
attitude seems prevalent among large companies: "We want to sell
computers/toasters/baseball bats, so let's give all our support to the
professional developer/toaster engineer/baseball bat handle-wrapper,  rather
to the little