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So yes, there is a rational motivation for locking people in to your
software. You make more money. You can, as Microsoft has shown,
make money hand over fist. The question is, do you want to make
money hand over fist, or do you want to do what's best for society?
Microsoft has chosen the former.

This is hardly a fair question. If you were talking about a cure for
cancer, then yes, it would be nice to do something good for society
and offer your medicine or process at a price affordable to everyone
who has cancer. But we're talking about a luxury item here, a
computer. You won't die without one. You can buy the one that you need
to do the job you want to use it for. If the job requires a floppy
drive, then you can buy a computer with a floppy drive. If it requires
running an application that's only been written for one operating
system, then buy the computer that runs that operating system. A lot
of Macs were sold because of the music, audio, video, and graphics
programs written for the Mac (exclusively).

You buy the computer that runs the programs you need. You don't buy
the computer and then tell people that they should write programs for
you. Suppose you saw someone using Sequoia, or even Sonar or Audition,
and you decided that it was the best DAW for you and you could improve
your productivity if you started using it. Would you bitch and moan
because they didn't have a Mac veresion, or would you buy a PC, buy
the program, and start working? (OK, start learning g)

You could write a raw floppy image to the floppy drive from Terminal,
probably (using "dd"). You'd have to know what you're doing, though.
There is probably a way to make an icon that does all this automatically.

That sounds like an OS-X thing (actually a Unix thing). Can we assume
that every Mac owner is running the latest OS? I was doing fine with
Win3.1 around here but I finally had to upgrade to Win95 because there
was an application that I needed to run for work that required it.
Sort of like having to buy a floppy drive, I guess, only a whole lot
more trouble.

When possible, do things in a cross-platform way. In this case, I
would make a raw floppy image and put it on the CD in addition to
the Windows one. Then anyone who is not using Windows has a raw
floppy image to work with.

I suspect that a great many wouldn't have any idea what to do with a
raw floppy image on whatever OS they had. I don't know what to do with
one on Windows. Why should I assume that a Mac user would know what to
do with it? A Linux user might, because they're tinkerers.

If they are using an operating system
that makes it hard or impossible to make a floppy given a raw
floppy image, that's a weakness in their operating system and
it's their problem.

Aha!

By the way, I keep one computer alive here that has both a 5-1/4 and
3-1/2 inch floppy drive on it.

Is it CGA or EGA? Or did you spend the extra bucks and go to VGA?

It's a VGA, a 486 with 64 MB of RAM, I think. I use the monitor with
the Mackie MDR when I have it open on the bench.

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