[OS X] LensForge: Software for professional & amateur lens designers, amateur telescope makers, and others.

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:13:56 -0400, John Steinberg
wrote, in part:

My compliments in advance to those of you mature enough not to turn
this into yet another Mac vs. the world thread.

Ah, yes.

After all, most of us are adults, some of us even behave as such 50% of
the time, and those of us who do not operate at the brain stem level
already know that OS X kicks major ass.

Unfortunately, since you have chosen, in this your own post, not only to
take a *position* in the debate, but to do so with an insult aimed at
the partisans of the other side, you appear not to be one of those you
compliment. When you do that, you can expect to get what you don't want.

I have no quarrel with the claim that the various operating systems for
the Macintosh are wonderful operating systems. However, in this post,
you note that the particular program you're mentioning is *the first*
lens design program that you know of for OS X.

Since the availability of software for one's computer determines what
one is able to use it for, it really determines the value of a computer.
If it had been OS X competing against *Windows 3.1*, the first really
usable version of Windows (since it licensed TrueType from Apple, of
course) for most computer users, Windows 3.1 would still "win".

Yes. *You* have the better operating system. But having a competitive
marketplace for almost any application you might want to buy - that
counts for something too. Why, that's even a "no-brainer".

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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