Some people claim that "Defective by design" was a Steve Job's idea. But I will say that in average Macs last longer than PCs even if you're running applications developed without having MacOS on mind (i.e. gvSIG) ;-)
On May 17, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Jorge Piera Llodrá wrote: > I thought it was impossible to break a Mac :-) > > Enjoy your new laptop! > > Regards, > Jorge > > > On 05/17/2011 05:09 PM, Rafa Gaitan wrote: >> Hi Manuel, >> >> Maybe you already know that, but I will continue collaborating with >> Mac version. At least now I have a new apple laptop (the last one >> crashed in the middle of a speech! :O). >> >> Cheers, >> Rafa. >> >> >> 2011/5/17 Manuel Madrid<[email protected]>: >> >>> Hello all and sorry for crossposting. >>> >>> As you all know one of the main benefits of FOSS projects is the >>> community participation. Community contributions make projects better >>> and greater, covering areas that otherwise they couldn’t achive. One of >>> these areas is multiple Operative System support. >>> >>> Currently gvSIG officialy supports some GNU/Linux distributions and >>> Windows but thanks to Rafael Gaitán and the ai2 Institute of the >>> Universidad Politécnica de Valencia [1] (the gvSIG 3D extension team >>> [2]) there is for a while a gvSIG non-oficial distribution for Mac OS X >>> [3], increasing the supported platforms to this new one. >>> >>> This is, with no doubt, a great contribution for the project, specially >>> appreciated for OS X users, and we think it could be a good starting >>> point to definitely boost the gvSIG Mac Community in order to have a >>> gvSIG distribution for Mac from now on. >>> >>> We think it would be interesting to promote the creation of a working >>> group composed of Mac developers and users whose goal would be, first of >>> all, define the minimum roles and tasks needed to carry out the >>> maintenance of the distribution, and secondly, to carry out these tasks. >>> >>> The working group would work autonomously under supervision of a gvSIG >>> TSC Board member and it would have the support of the gvSIG development >>> and testing teams. >>> >>> Those who are interested in actively participate in this working group, >>> please, reply to this mail on the list or, if you prefer, send me a >>> private e-mail (mmadrid [at] gvsig [dot] com) introducing yourself, >>> indicating your profile (developer/user) and the tasks you think you can >>> contribute on. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Manuel. >>> >>> [1] http://www.ai2.upv.es/en/index.php >>> [2] >>> http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.10/extensiones-gvsig-1.10/extension-3d >>> [3] http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/other-distributions >>> -- >>> Manuel Madrid. >>> Product and testing manager. >>> gvSIG project (http://www.gvsig.org). >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gvsig_internacional mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Jorge Piera Llodrá > gvSIG Development Team > PRODEVELOP > Plaza Don Juan de Villarrasa, 14 - 5 > 46001 Valencia > Tel: +34 963510612 > Fax: +34 963510908 > e-mail: [email protected] > http://www.prodevelop.es > http://www.gvsig.org > > _______________________________________________ > Gvsig_internacional mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional > _______________________________________________ Gvsig_internacional mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.gva.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gvsig_internacional
