Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Quoting Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> After reading an interesting article on NewsForge by Roblimo about >>> the adoption of Linux after the new 'MacTel' (macs on intel) become >>> available. I >>> wonder what will this mean for the OSX users of OOo / NeoOffice J. >> >> I doubt that it will make a big difference. The problem of the Mac port >> doesn't lie in the low level area (CPU etc.), OOo already runs on a MAC, >> but not in the native look and feel. It's the port of OOo to the MAC GUI >> toolkit and its event model that is so hard to achieve. Both are not >> expected to be different in the "MacTel" so the porting effort shouldn't >> be influenced by the hardware base. > > And I surely never thought that, but the potential new developers that > will have mac on their pc's and could work in the OOo port to Cocoa and other > Mac > toolkits.
Ah, I see. That's a problem of software engineers (like me): sometimes they tend to see things too technical. :-) Sorry for that. So let's look on the MacTel/OOo story from the market perspective. IMHO it's still open wether "MacTel" will be a success, a disaster or none of both. *If* it became a huge success and the market share of the Mac increased dramatically it will very probably increase the demand for the OOo MAC version. That's only natural, I assume. My personal opinion (I'm not speaking for the OOo project or Sun!) is that for technical reasons ;-) it's doubtfull that a higher demand for a MAC version will create a higher possibility for its availability. The problem of the MAC version is that even with a hypothetical MAC market share of 10% (roughly the doubled share from today) the huge effort to create the port it still doesn't make it tempting from a commercial POV (as long as Apple itself doesn't work on it), so the work to do is still up to the volunteers. I agree that there is some hope that a larger MAC community could yield more volunteer developers working on the OOo port(s), just from simple statistical calculations. ;-) Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
