Anyone care what I think?

[David Andel]

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, William Shipley wrote:
> > And will there be a patch for OW 2.x users.
>
> No. No no and no. Microsoft doesn't backpatch Windows 95 with DirectX,
> does it? It's unreasonable to ask a small company that loses money
> putting out a web browser for NEXTSTEP to maintain two versions simply
> because you don't want to upgrade your system software. If you were
> running MacOS 2.x, you also wouldn't have a lot of software that runs on
> your system.

This argument is very strange. First of all 3/4 of the supported NEXTSTEP  
platforms most probably won't be supported under Rhapsody anymore. So how  
could one upgrade the system software if running NEXTSTEP e.g. on a SPARC  
machine?

Secondly what machine do you want us to buy? Intel hardware is for  
experimental users only (with lots of time) and for some people absolutely  
no option. Buying a PPC? No thanks! Will the PPC survive? No idea...

I can understand why you do not want to upgrade OW 2.x anymore. But you  
also should understand why so many of us won't be interested in an (early)  
upgrade to Rhapsody just to run OmniWeb 3.0. I already know that many of  
the programs I currently use won't be ported to Rhapsody. So an "upgrade"  
to a new Rhapsody *machine* means nothing else than trouble to me.

David Andel
NEXTTOYOU Magazine