by Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Aug 16, 2007 at 06:46 AM
Sherm Pendley <spamtrap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "R.Nicholson" <rhnlogic@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>> I recently fixed some bugs and updated the OS X version of a
>> freeware application, and I'm trying to decide whether there are
>> enough real users of older Mac OS's to back-****t these fixes.
>
> The other half of that equation is the effort it may take you to do the
> back-****ting. If you can do it with a trivial amount of effort, then it
> wouldn't take many users to justify it. On the other hand, if it would
> require a huge amount of effort, it would have to appeal to an equally
> huge number of users for it to make sense.
The third half of the question is what kind of target market you have.
For example, I hear there are still quite a lot of classic-running Macs in
schools, but basically nowhere else.
--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software