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From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actually
Message-ID: <2414@spray.CalComp.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 88 21:53:18 GMT
References: <429@rose3.rosemount.com> <870217@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <9867@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9872@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9874@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9877@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <15952@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson)
Organization: CalComp, A Lockheed Company, Hudson, NH, USA
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In article <15952@apple.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com.UUCP (David Casseres) writes:
>
>  Apple has never claimed to be offering
>any support to people who want to write printer drivers.

  Not quite true. At the spring developers conference, last April, an
  Apple representative publicly offered support to printer developers
  who wanted to develop drivers for their products. That offer was
  followed up by phone calls and links promising specific
  support. Then there was a sudden change of policy. NOW apple expressly
  does not support driver development. The stated reason is that they
  don't know how to do it.

>  A document that really
>explained how to do the job would be very large, everybody would REALLY
>hate what it told you to do, and it would probably be obsolete by the
>time it became available.

  Instead, we now just get to guess, and rely on old documentation (the
  phone book) which was never complete and is ALREADY obsolete.


NOTE: The opinions expressed above are MY OWN. Don't blame my employer!
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