For your reference, records indicate that Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26 February 2016 at 01:02, Svetlana A. Tkachenko > <[email protected]> wrote: > > IMHO the goal of gnustep is being a platform which open-source mac apps > > can be ported to so that people don't have to run a proprietary kernel > > to use these apps. > > What? What an incredibly strange, narrow, weird goal. There is nothing outlandish about wanting to use GNUstep to run existing Cocoa apps. If it is as narrow a goal as you say, it seems like it should be subsumed under whatever larger vision there might be for the project. > I suggest that you need to learn the difference between a single goal > (one shared aim that everyone works towards cooperatively) and your > own personal primary purpose. The purpose of this discussion is to see if there *is* a shared aim that can be cooperatively achieved. If there isn’t, the GNUstep project should explicitly state that it will not welcome code or coders that work with Apple platforms. > What you describe is not even remotely connected with why I am > interested in GNUstep. It is not on my top 10; it's not on my list at > all. And yet you don’t state the reasons for your interest, so you don’t really add to the discussion of the bigger picture. > And that is what FOSS is about. Different people scratching their own > itches. No, scratching itches is simply *one* possible starting point for a project. There is a vast graveyard of open source projects that never go anywhere because they never strive to be *more* than ego-driven coding. Some of us still have hopes that GNUstep can escape that kind of dead end. > > Just like ReactOS is there for people to use Notepad++ without having to > > purchase the proprietary OS. > > That -- that's /insane/. That’s the world. If reality seems insane to you, that’s *your* problem. Seek professional medical help. > I mean, who would ever do that? People who have enough sense to *not* code something from scratch when perfectly useful software already exists that solves the problem. That’s the reality when it comes to Mac and iOS software: it exists in volumes, often with GNU licenses (or one’s even more free), and can serve as not only a test for the completeness of GNUstep frameworks, but as a ready introduction to large numbers of people who could contribute to the project. -- "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain." River Tam, Trash, Firefly _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
