blochowi@rt5.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) (12/13/89)
In article <113300218@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >BTW, I think all of us with IIs and IIGSs should boycott APDA--not because of >the high prices, but because all they ever seem to have time for anymore is the >Macintosh. I know I'm dropping my membership. Anyone else care to do the >same? Surely you jest... I dunno about you, but I pretty much need the membership to keep on top of what's going on with the new system software for the //gs. Given that APDA is the only place (that I know about, anyway) to get Beta manuals & tools, it seems there's not a whole lot of choice, regardless of your personal feelings on the matter. As an example, it'd be basically impossible to deal with resources without Rez (TML Pascal ]['s resource editor is cute, but not real potent, and, IMHO, Call Box has a remarkably primitive and unresponsive UI - then again I didn't use either for more than 10 minutes). Besides, what good would boycotting do? Hmm, lesse, (you think) they're not paying enough attention to the //, so we'll give them less // customers, and all of a sudden, wow, they'll pay less attention to the Mac. It would seem that the logic there is somewhat weak. Boycotting monopolies doesn't seem to be a particularly strong idea in the first place. >! Scott Alfter ! A keyboard--how quaint! ! >! Internet: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ! -- M. Scott ! -- Jason Blochowiak - blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.uucp "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Sapirstein