OT Re: FrameMaker on Mac

[Bill Briggs]

At this stage I wouldn't even speculate on what motivates Steve Jobs, or what he's fanatical about. And that may have changed since his close brush with the mortality (pancreatic cancer). One detects a change in his outlook.

I don't know that we Mac users are fanatics. I switched from windows a little over a decade ago. I still have Windows machines in the labs here. I like what I'm using now (the Mac) and I have no interest in switching back to Windows. And some of my colleagues switch to the Mac every year, so we are a growing group. On campus there is a very large population of Mac users and the numbers are climbing all the time. But as concerns FrameMaker, I'll change documentation strategies before I change platforms, though I'll miss FrameMaker. I'm a bit of a nut about typography, so LaTeX will probably end up being good for me. It's not fanaticism. It's just preference in a platform to work on day in and day out. OS X provides a really nice work space whether I want to make a movie with some Apple software, or write a shell script in UNIX, or compile some C code for a PIC. It's just a great platform. It's not perfect. I've got my gripes with some things OS X and some things Apple, but on the whole I think it's about as good as it gets out there for usability and power on the desktop.

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At 2:47 PM -0400 4/6/06, Art Campbell wrote:
>Too bad Jobs isn't as much a Mac fanatic as Mac fanatics are....
>
>Art
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>On 4/6/06, Bill Briggs <web at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>> At 12:41 PM -0400 4/6/06, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>> >Bill Briggs wrote:
>> >>At 6:02 PM -0700 4/5/06, RJ Jacquez wrote:
>> >>>in general I believe that this is a great time to be a FrameMaker
>> >>>user
>> >>
>> >>I'm surprised that a Mac user can say such a thing with a straight
>> >>face. I've got 13 years worth of FrameMaker collateral on my Mac and
>> >>it's a profoundly unpleasant time to be a FrameMaker user. Yeah, it
>> >>works, but with the end in sight it's almost painful to create new
>> >>documents with it. The lack of an OS X version of FrameMaker is the
>> >>most annoying computing issue I've had in more than a decade.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Don't know if it will be good news to mac users or not... but it was reported in the paper today that "Apple Computer Inc. released new software yesterday that lets users of its newest computers run Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows XP operating system."
>> >
>> >(and therefore Windows versions of FM)
>> >
>> >http://tinyurl.com/lfp96
>> >
>> >I'll leave the mac users to sort out their reactions to that one...
>>
>> This is preferable to a dual boot scenario.
>> http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/06/parallels/index.php
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>> - web
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>> P.S. But I still want a Native version. Virtualization is the spawn of evil.
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