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 ! > > What do you mean by Open Source user? A kid that does not want to pay > the 80 EUR for a MacOSX license/upgrade. Let the kid stick to a Mac. It > looks better, works more reliable and allows the kid to learn > Objective-C in a very pleasant environment. I would love to live in a > world where all Wintel boxes got replaced by Macs.
So go head with your Mac. I'm talking about GNUstep here. I don't care about Mac. Feel free to use your Mac. Let those who want something better, something that can run Linux or FreeBSD. Something that can be fun talk about GNUstep > 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. > GNUstep/Etoile needs a company with big money like Apple is for Darwin, > Sun for Open Solaris and Open Office,... that takes care of quality > management and binary releases every few months. Then it can become > better or at least close. bla bla. Corporate speaking ... If a company could pay some GNUstep developers that would be great. But it is not the case, I don't see any company that would do it. > Of course we are using gui (although no nibs and no gorms,...). Until > now we used Window Maker, Camaelon, gui, base and a stack of our own > frameworks to get a usable desktop. Where can I find your "own frameworks" ? Fabien _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
