[OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

[Bob Sneidar]

This is rather like a person who drives a propane vehicle getting upset because there aren't just as many propane refilling stations as there are gas stations. Sorry Richmond. Software vendors are not trying to be fair. They are trying to feed their families, and no one accepts good feelings as currency. 

Bob S


> On Oct 20, 2015, at 10:27 , Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Fairly hacked off to receive and advert for THIS on my Facebook page:
> 
> https://www.dashlane.com/en/lp/neverforget-teal?utm_campaign=1841393610&utm_medium=paid_social&utm_source=FBdesktop&nan_pid=1841393610
> 
> mainly because when you get to the webpage it:
> 
> 1. Assumes that you are running Microsoft Windows,
> 
> and, as an after-thought,
> 
> 2. Offers a Macintosh version.
> 
> Some of us are neither, and resent this kind of 'push' that makes all sorts of
> unwarranted assumptions about what we run on our computers, why we run it,
> and what we do with it.
> 
> Where do these people live? In the same stupid, limited world where 90% of
> school teachers and school systems dwell; the place where every square peg
> must be beaten and hammered to fit into a round hole.
> 
> I sometimes wonder why LiveCode don't take advantage of that and present themselves as
> the "anti-programmer's programming suite", the "un-code" the "to-h*ll-with-the-command-line-language":
> there should be a lot of uptake.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
> P.S. I also use my computer to iron my socks.
> 
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