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I would like to apologize if anyone (from Apple or otherwise) felt I
was 'Apple-bashing'; it was not intended.  I plead guilty to lawyer-
bashing, but I don't know of anyone (other than a lawyer) who would
consider that a crime. :=)

As someone who writes for Macintosh owners and develops software to
run on Macintosh computers, I also have a stake in Apple's success; 
that's how I make my living.

As an owner of Macintosh computers, I sometimes have user frustrations
about things I see Apple could do differently.  It's been my experience
that at least 50% of the time, Apple will take a good suggestion that's
also feasible and deliver exactly what you asked for.  Remember how
everyone wanted font changes in TextEdit?  They're there in System 4.1.

Long-time readers of this group know that I am fully behind Apple's overall
goals, to increase the number of Macintoshes out there, preserve their own
distinction from the clones (in the MS-DOS world and otherwise), and to
be profitable, successful and change the world.  I sometimes offer suggestions 
on how they can better achieve those goals.

In the matter at hand, I think it's in Apple's interests to make sure
that every owner of a Macintosh computer manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc.
should have the latest system software as quickly as possible.  There are
a lot of bug fixes and compatibility fixes in the new software and it's
a waste if no one gets it, not to mention leaving lingering support problems
and ill will for Apple, Apple dealers, Apple developers and everyone else.

It's clearly not practical for Apple to spend $10 million every year to mail
a free disk to every Macintosh owner.  As I said earlier, I hope Apple does
find a distribution channel (or combination thereof) that gets these
new systems on the hard disks.
-- 
	Joel West
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