On 8/3/07, Fabien VALLON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, August 3, 2007 12:32 pm, Andreas Höschler wrote: > > Hi Fabien, > > > >> > >> GNUstep runs after Cocoa since 8 years. > >> What does it gain for Open Source users? > >> Nothing !
Come on... what do you mean it gains nothing ? GNUstep made a lot of progresses, it's usable. It's not bug-free, there's also a lot left to do, but you can use it to write apps.. And as a free software users, we are better off with GNUstep existing than without, no ? So what exactly is your point ? > > But we are living in a real world with companies slowly starting to > > wonder whether using Wintel is really such a good idea, with CEOs > > trying to secure investments in large software projects. These guys (at > > least a few) like the idea of open source, the gurantee that no company > > of the world can drop a product from a market and thus render very > > expensive software aquisitions/developments useless. Now we have Open > > Source combined with the efficiency of OPENSTEP/Objective-C, combined > > with build and run on almost any platform. That is something! > > Unusable from a desktop point of view. Well, it seems that Andreas *is* using GNUstep on the desktop.. and in a corporate environment to boot. Personally I'd love have more informations about his general setup. And his general point is just that OpenSource software brings more stability/long term view to IT management, that's all -- hardly a wild idea. -- Nicolas Roard "La perfection, ce n'est pas quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, c'est quand il n'y a plus rien à enlever." -- Antoine de St-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
