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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1175)	6/2/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

I'm a professional programmer also and write Windows apps becuase I can make a lot of money doing it, and there is a huge market. Actually, according to the Software Publishers Association, the Macintosh Applications market is far more profitable. You have much fewer costs for support, easier channel management (due to the tendency to buy mac software mail order) and much less competition. Microsoft owns its own application market. In the Mac arena, you can compete with them easily. An example is ClarisWorks vs. MS Works. A Draw on the intel side, but Claris kicked MS's butt on the mac side... since MS didn't have a monopoly to exploit. Another example is Disney's Lion King CD-ROM. It was released soon after the movie. It lost a huge amount of money on the PC side due to support costs but was profitable enough on the mac side to make up for the losses. Dragonfly

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (1175)	6/3/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: Judd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

Most Windows apps halt when you click down on the mouse and don't let up. Huh? OK, after trying this on most of my newer apps, they don't appear to do this. Maybe its just the 16-bit ones, or maybe the older ones didn't bother to do threading right. When I move them they come to a complete stop until I let off the mouse button. I'm a professional programmer also and write Windows apps becuase I can make a lot of money doing it, and there is a huge market. If all I cared about was the system technology, I'd be writing apps for the NEXT probably I can make money programming anything. I could probably make decent money programming palm pilot apps, or Linux. The most important thing to me is that I like to come to work everyday. Right now I am porting NT code to Unix and this makes me happy.