Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bc From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: May 13th yesterday (was May 13th Today) Message-ID: <52923@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 15 May 91 18:42:25 GMT References: <17937@venera.isi.edu> <52920@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 43 In article <52920@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes: |I don't think it's fair to "blame" anyone when Apple DID TAKE ALL THE |STEPS YOU DEMAND so rudely, and the simple answer is that System 7.0 |should (should should) be almost everywhere in the continental US | | THIS WEEK | |Does that seem fair to you? I wanted to publicly emend this posting before it started a major flamewar. I certainly do understand that y'all are very impatient for System 7. I understand your frustrations and excitement. I also understand how hard it is to wait an extra month-or-two for the localized versions. But I do want all of you to understand that Apple is working as hard as it can to get things out as fast as humanly possible. Every copy that you get from your dealer was probably shipped the very night before. Unlike other companies, Apple didn't hold up the product in the major cities to wait for the copies in the less-major cities, for example. Apple cannot make the planes fly any faster, nor coerce the truck drivers to drive any faster. They HAVE made the duplication mills run faster, and many employees have VOLUNTEERED to work later, faster, and harder to get System 7 out to you all. Overseas, the internationalization folks are working ridiculous hours (especially considering that in order to phone Cupertino at Noon, they have to call in the middle of the night) to get completely customized versions ready as fast as humanly possible. NOTE WELL: Please also understand that it's mostly the efforts of a tiny handful of people that are going to make FTP service happen. They are doing it NOT because they are paid to, but because THEY WANT TO. bill coderre And if your programs are as good, I'll be proud of you too.