Would it be possible to produce a GnuStep-based desktop/distribution with a set of apps (as per my previous mails, and others'), very small, but all robust and well-built, and co-operating between themselves as API-based interchangeable components (e.g. Mail.app and AddressBook.app with AddressBook being used by Mail only via a published API with users being able to replace it) for Raspberry PI --- much in the way NeXT's MO was your "world" here the SD card would be.
One could build an SD-card image, and charge a $1 or $5 to generate a downloadable image configured to work with a given Mac address, or provide the SD image with limited functionality (say, everything but network connectivity) for free but charge $1 for a Mac-locked password to network enable it. GnuStep could position itself as an educational system, a kind of "Pascal" versus Mac OS X's "C": no industrial-strength bleeding edge bells and whistles and experimental buggy, poorly thought out stuff, just well-thought-out orthogonal, mission critical, "just works" frameworks and apps. The $1-$5 per seat could generate enough income to pay for an intern to package SD card distribution updates. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
