Re: Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB

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From: Nathan F. Janette
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 19:53

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In article <1992Oct29.083938.1398@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew  
Loewenstern) writes:
> In article <dillon.0q9s@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>  
dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
> >    At the moment we have the situation where while NeXT's GUI runs circles
> >    around everyone else's, the lack of primo bundled software turns people
> >    away from investing it.  Things like Edit and Draw! are cute and all
> >    that but provide almost no capability, and that's what users see.
> 
> Bullshit!  NeXTSTEP now ships with _LESS_ bundled software than it did
> originally, and NeXT is selling more copies/machines than ever before!
> 
> NeXTSTEP ships with way more bundled software than ether OS/2,
> Macintosh, or Windows, and they are all outselling NeXTSTEP by a very
> large margin.
> 
> People care about *shrinkwrap* software, and bundled software prevents
> the development of shrinkwrap software.

A ha, so you'll support the unbundling of the development apps (IB,
cc, etc) to encourage the development of shrinkwrap equivalents?

What is the difference?

--
Nathan Janette		"I'm a NeXTstep man,
Dept MB&B, Yale Univ	 I'm a NeXTcube guy"
New Haven, CT
nathan@laplace.biology.yale.edu (NeXT)

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