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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LWDPressRelease" data-source="post: 4897583" data-attributes="member: 77732">If we were to start writing Hero Lab from scratch tomorrow, then your argument would have some merit to it. However, Hero Lab traces its roots to two other products of ours, and shares a common code base with them. Those products - and portions of the codebase - date back to 1997. Twelve years ago, there were no good solutions for cross-platform portability between Mac and Windows. Heck, many major companies wasted tens of millions of dollars apiece trying to develop suitable cross-platform solutions back in those days. Since Hero Lab is built on a foundation that long pre-dates the recent cross-platform solutions, it is tied to Windows.Would I prefer to have a native Mac or cross-platform solution? Absolutely! But then we would need to stop forward progress for nearly a year while we re-worked everything for Mac compatibility. Alternately, we could re-write everything in a new language that provides cross-platform portability, but that would entail an even longer period (our active codebase is roughly 500,000 lines of C++ code). That's a huge opportunity for someone else to come in and overtake us in terms of features and functionality. So it's not a viable business option. And since our development staff is only two guys, it's not possible for us to do a port in parallel.There is no irrational fear of change here - just practical business trade-offs being made, which are purely rational.It's frustrating when very bright people take a myopic view of business from a single vantage point, without considering that there might be other factors involved. This lack of perspective results in blanket statements being made that are wholly inappropriate and patently incorrect. And then people like myself are left with the choice of either ignoring the misinformation (and allowing it to propagate through lack of any challenge) or rebutting it (and thereby having to "dress down" someone who I'm sure means well). It's a lose-lose situation, and I hate being stuck with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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