Rants about cheap users...

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <1995Sep19.184126.7587@chemabs.uucp>,
Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org> wrote:
>P.S.  Hey you hacks - one of you get busy and write a IIgs WWW browser - 
>I now have 2 GS's at home and would pay something for a graphical WWW
>browser.  I suspect there are a number of others who would as well.

   Writing such a thing would be one of the best ways to get yourself
on the all-time list of pirated GS softwares. Face it, nobody pays for
GS software anymore-- I released Swatdisk a month ago (telling people
that they should send in their $$$ if they used it for more than two
weeks), and got a nice flury of positive comments. So, I should have
received some money, right? Hell no. Three payments, all within the
first week, and from nobody I had ever seen online.

   A HTML -> "Teach" document converter wouldn't be that hard to do at
all. Anyone who thinks that inline graphics should be supported can
write their own darn viewer _first_, and then we can talk how the GS
[Non-Second Sight] graphics suck. But, the whole networking end is
another matter. I've never done a single shred of unix-style
networking code in my life, and have better things to do for now. 

   A copy of GNO/ME with SLIP/PPP support [Derek's got better things
to do with his life also, it seems] would be required to make it
halfway interactive and/or portable. Then, trying to provide tech
support for a few thousand Apple II users who've never touched
SLIP/PPP in their life wouldn't be that fun either. 

   I really like my GS. It doesn't pay, and for me, Netscrape, Mosaic,
or whatever on my pentium box is far cooler. Yes, I'm kinda jaded
about GS users, and for a very darn good reason: we're too cheap to
save ourselves. Rant what you want about Apple pulling hwardware
support out from under us-- the fact remains that if Apple II users
had supported companies, the companies would have done something
(licensing/clones/etc) for us. Apple supported us longer than 90% of
the Apple II companies.

Nathan Mates

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