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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:57:48AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > How else would they be able to convince you to part with more money? > > I hates software whenever it doesn't do what it should do, and its > vendor expects me to pay them to fix their own mistakes and shortcomings. This leads directly to one of the things that, speaking as a long-time Windows user, mystifies me most about OS X and its users: they make you buy a new OS every year! Now, admittedly there's a new Windows every two years or so (though it looks like the follow up to XP, which came out in '01, won't appear till '05 or so) but you don't *need* it. If you're running Win98 on, say, a P2-400 with 128MB of RAM, you can reasonably expect 95% of Win32 software to work on it, and the only stuff that doesn't will usually require an NT kernel, so it'll work on NT 4 instead. *Everything* runs on the four-year-old Win2K and that will continue to be the case until (and probably well beyond) Longhorn's appearance. Yet within three months of Jaguar coming out, every second bit of new OS X software I saw *demanded* it. I probably have a distinctly inaccurate impression of things here, but... (trails off waving hands, hoping for a Mac user to continue at this point) -- Yoz
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