e$: Watching the MacRubble Bounce
Jamie Zawinski
jwz at netscape.com
Thu Aug 8 03:44:08 PDT 1996
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
>
> Apple computer is dead, for all intents and purposes. It will be "officially"
> dead (bankrupt) within a couple of years. Writing any sort of software for the
> Mac - crypto or otherwise - is a waste of time.
If you accept that, then doesn't that make writing crypto software for
any Unix platform *even more* of a waste of time? Because last time I
checked, there were way more Macs on mom-and-pop's desks than Unix
machines, counting *all* vendors.
Even if Apple folded *tomorrow*, those machines wouldn't vaporize.
If you put easy-to-use strong crypto on a significant fraction of
those desks six months from now, your work could easily have a lifetime
of a year and a half even in your worst case scenario.
(PS, I haven't used a Mac since 1985, so that's not why I say this.)
--
Jamie Zawinski jwz at netscape.com http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/
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