First, lay off the personal attacks. This is a developer forum, not fark.com. If you want to impress people by beating each other up, do it somewhere else. <subject ends at this point, if you have questions send me a PM or email *Don't post it here!*>
While pre-selling a Mac version of the software might sound like a good idea, it enters the whole world of "vaporware". Conitec fought hard against even having a "Forecast" list. It would be very hard to convince us to take money for a software product we haven't even started on...
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Seems like this would spread the 3DGS team a bit thin ...
It would spread the current team very thin. This goes back to my "limited time and money" point. We would have to hire at least one new person or...
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They could hire an outside team to do it I guess, but the est. $50k price tag doesn't seem like enough for that...
Maybe. Again, the $50k price tag is just a guess at this point (remember I said *not* to quote me on that 
). In house or 3rd party, I'm sure we would end up spending a lot more then $50k. The hope is that it would be enough to get started.
