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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
Message-ID: <7751@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 89 19:17:47 GMT
References: <659@whizz.uucp> <653@lopez.UUCP> <1619@infinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <653@lopez.UUCP> flash@lopez.UUCP (Gary Bourgois) writes:
>BUT you see a lot of Macs in places like Newspapers (The Christian Science
>Monitor LOVES THEM) Magazines, small publishing houses, etc.

In article <1619@infinet.UUCP> rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn) writes:
>A minor correction.  The CSM *management* loves them.  The CSM artists
>*hate* them with a passion.  (I suffer regular abuse from a CSM artist
>who cannot understand how anyone could possibly think Mac's have any
>artistic value.)  

I don't want to continue this discussion in inappropriate newsgroups,
but this was too much to let go without comment.  I know a number of
professional artists (that is, people who make a significant portion of
their income through graphic and visual arts) and without exception,
they love the Macintosh.  I bounced this message off a few of them last
night and the reactions were momentary shock followed by laughter.

>A Mac can be controlled by
>a person with one hand having one finger.  How many artists would
>consider having all but one hand and finger amputated to be crippling?

It can be done, yes, thanks to a handy Apple CDEV called "Easy Access"
intended for the use of the physically impaired, but this is not the
normal way of using the Macintosh.  Look at using, say, the line
drawing tool in angle-restricted mode.  If this was reported to you by
CSM artists, it shows to me that their real objections stem from the
fact that they haven't bothered to learn the software.

If this still isn't clear to you, how many other visual media
incorporate a full undo capability, smooth curve fitting, the ability
to make corrections without building up layers of white-out, automatic
generation of geometric shapes, multiple level canvases, and so forth?

Finally, what computers *do* your CSM friends like, if not the Mac?
MS/DOS or UNIX for graphics?  Barf!
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com
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