Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!news From: wieser@cs-sun-fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Bernhard Wieser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac is software - why not on NeXT? Message-ID: <1990Nov25.191143.26422@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 25 Nov 90 19:11:43 GMT References: <2420@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <30018@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Nov20.042706.29356@rice.edu> Organization: U. of Calgary Computer Science Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: cs-sun-fsd Hopefully the legal pussyfooting around patent and copyright issues will be resolved eventually; and hopefully this means death to 'software clones'. I don't want to argue flaws in total concept or utility, I DO want to say that being a NeXT AND Mac fan/user, I don't think this kind of piracy is necessary. Like really, NeXT is a developers machine, it is sooo much easier to develop software for the NeXT. NeXT is geared towards developers now, so that it can get a good software based before NeXT seriously decides to invade the commercial markets. Why waste time arguing/writing/using emulators? I'd rather see applications ported to the NeXT, or data transferred through gateways... NeXT software should be NeXTy, not Macy. ( Seems kind of like a step backwards...) -- (------------------------------------------------------------------------) ( Bernie Wieser, wieser@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, BSWieser@uncamult.BITNET ) ( 4rth Year Dbl.Mgr Cpsc Clhc University of Calgary | ) ( S/H Developer Dept. of Psychology, " " " \|/ )