Nice formulae, but somewhat meaningless given you have no idea of the
values of x or y.
I find all this astonishing. I clearly stated that it is reasonable
for Apple to *not* offer support for uninstallation for a DP, so
we're talking here about the cost of an engineer sitting down and
writing some notes on what files need to be deleted and what config
files to be edited in order to allow the user to be able to reinstall
a supported version. The cost of this is probably an afternoon's
work at most. Really, this is not very much to ask and from the
response here you'd think people were asking for something unusual!
The ability to uninstall or at least some notes on how to manually
uninstall is fundamental - even the sloppiest of open-source projects
normally includes such advice. Given that Sun manage to provide
uninstallers on their *nightly builds* of Java 6.0 for seven
different platforms (including Windows of all platforms), I struggle
to understand why Apple can't at least provide some basic advice on
how to remove DP's that are issued about once a month for one
platform ...
Paul
On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Cameron Hayne wrote:
On 22-Jan-06, at 2:26 AM, Paul Howland wrote:
Economics has nothing to do with it
I agree with Greg in that I think economics has *everything* to do
with it.
Definitions:
x = extra cost to Apple of providing uninstall instructions
(includes cost of extra support if something goes wrong)
y = extra benefit to Apple from having more developers using the
DPs because of these uninstall instructions
Assertion:
x > y
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Cameron Hayne
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