Steve:

I wrote a piece entitled Another Offer to Apple 7/30/97. I think in general terms it describes the kind of relationship that's possible between Apple and Macintosh net developers such as my company, UserLand Software. Hope you have the time to read it.

The important products are BBEdit, WebSTAR and my own Frontier. With these three pieces of software we have a text environment that Windows can't touch. The web is about text. These products need to be promoted, their users supported and nurtured and the companies helped to get on solid ground.

In the 1980s we had a co-marketing relationship with Apple that was a total win-win. Apple provided marketing air cover for my MORE product, and we opened up new markets for Apple. Our job was to sell Apple hardware. Apple's job was to sell our software. I would like to recreate the environment of win-win between Apple, my company, and other Mac developers.

Please let me know if you're interested.

Dave

PS: I'm ccing this to Bill Campbell, an old friend from the good days at Apple.