Re: Adobe FrameMaker End-of-Life for Macintosh Platform

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Denise,

Thank you for your feedback.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion vis-a-vis my style and 
motivation. Other recipients and contributors to this list may or
may not share those opinions.

In terms of the particular message you cite, I was simply stating the 
technical facts to counter a number of messages on this list by well-meaning
contributors. These messages have taken some terrible leaps of faith 
regarding what could have or should be done for a "quick fix" for FrameMaker
on the Macintosh, more specifically MacOS X, on the basis of their buying
into popular hype vis-a-vis OS similarities and portability issues.

Unlike some contributors to this list over the last week, I have not
questioned anyone's motives, intelligence, etc. Nor have I tried to
convince anyone that last week's announcement was good and wonderful.
My style is terse. I am not a "suit" or a PR wonk, just a dumb engineer
here at Adobe (and not even part of the FrameMaker organization) trying to
supply technical answers to what are usually print workflow and system
configuration issues. The terseness is a direct reaction to (a) needing to
keep the messages as short and sweet as possible and (b) wanting to avoid
editorializing as much as possible. With 300 to 600 incoming emails a day 
(after the spam filters), I really don't have time to craft namby-pamby 
responses to make everyone feel good. This isn't "USA Today" or 
"People Magazine." 

May I humbly suggest that if you really dislike my contributions to
this list that much and find them to be of no use to you, you simply set
your email filters to automatically discard all email with isaacs@xxxxxxxxx
in them.

        - Dov


At 3/30/2004 10:34 AM, Denise Salles wrote:
>Dov,
>
>In my opinion your messages are, as a general rule, contemptuous and condescending. Come down from the bell tower if you truly want open communication with others.
>
>Denise
>
>Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
>> At 3/29/2004 05:37 PM, Marc A.Santacroce wrote:
>> >So where do Mac users go from here. Can the UNIX version run on a Mac? Does anyone think Adobe will give us the "upgrade " price for swithcing to the Windows or UNIX versions? I really don't want to mess with MSWord. Does anyone have an alternative?
>> >
>> >
>> >Sincerely,
>> >
>> >Marc
>>
>> No, the Solaris version of FrameMaker obviously does not run on
>> the Macintosh nor could it be "simply recompiled" to do so. There
>> are VAST differences between the Solaris environment and the
>> MacOS X environment, especially when it comes to integration with
>> the display, input, fonts, and printing subsystems.
>>
>> MacOS X may have a "UNIX-like kernel" but that is where the
>> similarity with UNIX ends.
>>
>>         - Dov


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