On 04/03/12 03:22, Matthias Melcher wrote:
> (Mike very early [on] IIRC),
Yes, I recall Bill telling me about this guy on the east coast
who had made a whole website for FLTK, put it under source code
control, set up newsgroups, etc.. all for 'free'!
> Linux became popular, and all of a sudden, FLTK became decent cross
> platform tool. Which bothered DD, and we were asked to remove FLTK
> from public domain. I retur.ed a letter, asking DD to no longer use
> my Windows port of FLTK (at that point 300 users were usi.g Nuke on Win
> 2000...).
>
> Well, DD never answered my letter, FLTK stay in the public domain,
LOL, I didn't know about that -- I'm sure Richard Stallman
would pat you on the back..! :D
> I ported it to MacOS and later to OS X, and even was rehired
> By DD to make Nuke a commercial product for Linux, Windows,
> and even OS X, together with Bill. It was a fantastic time!
Wow, didn't know you were involved in that too,
or if I did, I forgot..!
> PS: my original 3d motion capture and animation software
> is now 22 years old, still runs fine on all the above platforms,
> and now controls ro ots like Nao by Aldebaran - thanks to choosing FLTK.
12 years for my stuff on the above platforms as well.
I think the main complaint we get is 'make widgets pretty'
and 'widgets look old'..! We need at least one dev who's
good at 'making pretty' and has no gray hair..!
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