From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:44:08 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: e$: Watching the MacRubble Bounce
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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.)


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