@AngelDaniel
I respect your point of view. It is true, Mark can and should do whatever the heck he wants with his products. I would point out that he does sell them so they are products. In which case standard business rules must surely enter the equation. In literary terms, for those who like to creatively write, sometimes it is necessary to "kill your darlings" to move the plot along.
If Mark was doing all of this and offering up gratis, for his own education and gratification, say, like FreeBasic, I would say do whatever. No business concerns there.
However, has been selling Blitz products. It does not appear to be just a hobby for Mark. Perhaps, just perhaps BRL would sell more if their efforts were focused.
Righting off the Mac may have been a bit rash on my part. However, I firmly believe that any development on the Mac side should be done after the Windows side is out of beta.
Blizzard makes close to a billion USD a year, literally. They could afford to develop on every platform out there. They still released the Mac version of WOW after the windows version was out. Even so I would like to see how much of their install subscriber base is Mac compared to Windows.
Anyways, we are packing up and moving to Arizona today and my wife is giving me dirty looks. Boxes to move and all.
Back later,
Allan
I respect your point of view. It is true, Mark can and should do whatever the heck he wants with his products. I would point out that he does sell them so they are products. In which case standard business rules must surely enter the equation. In literary terms, for those who like to creatively write, sometimes it is necessary to "kill your darlings" to move the plot along.
If Mark was doing all of this and offering up gratis, for his own education and gratification, say, like FreeBasic, I would say do whatever. No business concerns there.
However, has been selling Blitz products. It does not appear to be just a hobby for Mark. Perhaps, just perhaps BRL would sell more if their efforts were focused.
Righting off the Mac may have been a bit rash on my part. However, I firmly believe that any development on the Mac side should be done after the Windows side is out of beta.
Blizzard makes close to a billion USD a year, literally. They could afford to develop on every platform out there. They still released the Mac version of WOW after the windows version was out. Even so I would like to see how much of their install subscriber base is Mac compared to Windows.
Anyways, we are packing up and moving to Arizona today and my wife is giving me dirty looks. Boxes to move and all.
Back later,
Allan