Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!bc
From: bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple should let us e-mail System 7
Message-ID: <53032@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 May 91 22:28:47 GMT
References: <1991May15.221944.2905@eng.umd.edu> <52962@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May17.011103.16702@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Matthew Russotto:
|>I said:
|>|>The attitude was definitely "better safe than sorry" -- especially
|>|>since precious data might be lost. 
|>
|[Silver Lining] ought to get a 'mostly compatible'-- telling me that my DISK DRIVER isn't
|compatible sets off a red flag-- I am not about to go back to hacking up
|HDSC Setup and lose my partitions (and certainly the average user wouldn't!).
|If I was an average user, I'd say
|"SilverLining isn't compatible?  I can't use my disk! Forget this crap."

Apple could never get away with lying to make the compat report look
good. Oh boy, couldn't they!

I agree that Silver Lining sounds like it ought to be called "Mostly
Compatible," since until recently, no one ever unmounted HD's but
turned the damn machine off with them mounted.

There probably was something else that we don't know about that forced
the issue. Either that, or it was a typo. 

And I still think that a "better safe than sorry" approach is the
right one when one is dealing with millions of users, most of which
have no clue what a disk driver is.

I used to support those kinda people, and lemme tell you: I would
never allow someone to say "go right ahead" if there was the slightest
chance that it might break. No way.

In any case, ascribing evil motives to Apple, or even the software
companies, is overly paranoid. After all, a lotta people are gonna buy
the FIRST whatevers that are fully 7.0 studly.  Guaranteed permanent
marketshare.

bill coderre
part of the evil plan, such as it were