On 12/18/10 1:25 AM, cpolish at surewest.net wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > > <snip> > >> To overgeneralize, that's one of the big differences between free and >> commercial software. Commercial software that has a customer base >> that they can't afford to lose will rarely break backwards >> compatibility, or if they do, they'll provide conversion tools to >> manage the migration. > > <snip> > > Either you never dealt with Apple abruptly terminating support > for your hardware - the CPU for instance - or the memory was so painful > that you blocked it out :). On the flip side, Apple fans seem to be > unusually resiliant. I'm not bitter... Apple is not really a software company. Everything you buy from them is tied/bundled with hardware. I think their goal in updating software is always to force you to buy new hardware. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com