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In article <39765@apple.Apple.COM>, keith@Apple (Keith Rollin) writes:
>On the other hand, if we opened up support to everyone, the the big
>companies like Claris and MicroSoft feel slighted because we are
>helping someone figure how to write an INIT that makes the the
>garbage can emit funny noises when you empty it, rather than helping
>them on Excel 10.0 or MacWrite III 5.2 v4. I don't think that we're
>kowtowing to big corporate pressure, but we have to strive for some
>middle ground.

Perfectly understandable.  And anyway, those of us poor souls who own
Microsoft products would much rather you help them than the INIT
writers of the world, since they obviously need much more help than
they're currently getting.

You guys must have a good number of people who do nothing more than
full time hand-holding for the programming wizards at Microsoft;
imagine where we could be if DTS wasn't there to patiently explain why
you shouldn't specifically check for the 68881, or for the presence of
a LaserWriter before enabling font scaling.  Now if only you could get
them to listen to you...

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