| From: | Tim Seifert |
| Date: | 28 Mar 2001 at 15:44:25 |
| Subject: | Re: [D5] St. Louis? |
_Replying to a message_
By: Jonathan Potter <jpotter@lss.com.au>
To: dopus5@lss.com.au <dopus5@lss.com.au>
On: Wednesday, March 28, 2001, 4:40:10 PM
Re: [D5] St. Louis?
Hi Jonathan,
TS>> If you want to sell a product for a particular computer, you have to
TS>> write it to work with its current operating system. Insisting the OS
TS>> is changed to suit you, rather than coding for what exists, or
TS>> refusing to accept it as it is, is being pig headed. No matter how
TS>> good or bad the OS actually is.
JP> My point, which never seems to seep through people's skulls, is that
JP> it's not Opus that is incompatible with 3.9. It's 3.9 that disables
JP> _its own_ features when Opus is running. No one has ever told me why
JP> it needs to do this. As I said, talk to H&P about it.
/You're/ the coder. A user can't talk to some unrelated party about why
/your/ software doesn't work. well they can, but that won't change
anything. They can only talk to the coder about /their/ software. That's
the thing that's going to have to get changed.
If the OS coders have decided that they needed to change something so that
DOpus still runs, then /you/ find out what, and re-code DOpus in such a
way that the OS doesn't need to run some compatibility kludge.
It's up to the applications to be coded to suit the OS, not the other way
around.
Unless, of course, you don't care about this. Which seems to be the
prevailing idea.
Seeing as some people who are writing software are now writing it so it
will only run on the newest OS, the users are faced with two choices.
Don't run the new OS, so DOpus can run, but new software can't. Or stop
using out of date software, so they can use current stuff.
(I'm dropping an ISP soon, don't send mail to bigpond.com addresses.)
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