Re: The "user-developer gap" myth

[Eric Shepherd <sheppy@sheppyware.net>]

in article 3958d864.329507237@news, Jeff Blakeney at CUTblakeney@home.com
wrote on 6/27/00 9:40 AM:

> These are the only ones that I might consider "active" but even then,
> they are either producing no new Apple II stuff or very little and I
> hardly ever see any of them participating either here or on Delphi.
> Mind you, Bev is probably the most active but I just don't see it as
> I'm not on her mailing list.

It seems to me that an active Apple II developer would be one that has
released new software on a fairly consistent basis for the last few years,
that runs on an actual Apple II series computer.  I'm only aware of a
handful of developers that actually release new products for the Apple II
regularly.  And a number of key developers don't even fall into my
classification of "active" developers, because they're just too busy to
release software more often than once every year or two.

As far as I've been able to count, there are only a few Apple II programmers
active enough to release several new or updated products per year (at most,
I can count five or six that I'm aware of).


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Eric Shepherd
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