Re: SIS (was: Q: AppleTalk GS to MacSE)

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <11JUL199720540518@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>    I'm aware of that, and I'm also aware that it's usually the
>younger crowd that are more actively into programming, but that
>doesn't mean older people can't program too. 

   The major problem with the crop of college GS programmers from
90-94 was that we were too smart for our own good. Most to all of them
went into videogames (SNES's 65816 was a big draw) or
sysadminning. Both of those jobs are not cushy 9-5 jobs where you work
your 8 hours a day and then go home to code for a while. If you're at
work 12-18 (or more) hours a day coding, you rarely want to go home
and code a whole bunch more.

   If the college kids had gotten jobs that didn't suck so much time,
they'd probably still be supporting the GS a lot more. Then there's
the rather cruddy attitude developers recieve, both in terms of
monetary support (face it, nobody pays for shareware, and people are
unwilling to deal with the in-your-face pirates), and general support.

>I think another big problem are the benefits of it, if you're
>looking for profit there is very little or no market to tap anymore.

   Small market reduced in size by a bunch of pirating jerks. They
claim to be keeping things "alive," but they're just a bunch of
vultures hanging over a carcass trying to attract other
vultures. Nothing's being developed on emulators, or anything else
that shows any signs of "life." Just a barren area with greedy punks
that play a few games and then move on, leaving it worse than when
they arrived.

>    Speaking of GS/TCP, has anyone spoke with Derek in the past
>couple of months to see what stage he's at in development of it?

   Just like the rest of the college group: busy most of the day with
a real job. [And as he's married...]  I can't say if/when anything's
ever going to show up, just that it seems to be slipping more and
more. 

   Given that a few unrepentant pirates seem to go unpunished and even
allowed to show their face around here, it's likely that very little
new big things will ever be released. Yes, it's hurting others, but by
not releasing, you prevent the scum from getting their hands on all
the work you've done. Since there's no other ways of punishing them
that appear to work, that's what's left.

Nathan Mates



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