Hi Ian, Definitely no flame towards you but my point of view about the apple app store.
I have no personal experience with the appstore for Apple and that's because I'm completely against it for a couple of reasons: - You have to register and logon. No free access like in the google market. Apple (big brother) is watching you. - It's completely focused (not restricted) to closed source, commercial software. - You have to comply with all kinds of Apple restrictions (like no flash for iPad and so on). Hugin is about free open source and going where we want it to go. - app store is only available to snow Leopard and newer: No Tiger and Leopard, still 20% of the Hugin users. - We have to go through an acceptance test by Apple. As such this is not an issue as it safeguards the users for faulty or even malicious software, but it slows down our progress. For development builds it is (off course) not suitable, but that's obvious. As a side note and maybe off topic: I used to be a complete linx user but since 2007 I'm a great fan of the MacOSX operating system (but still using linux). I'm fully against all kind of closed source, closed company initiatives Apple further has. I will never buy an ipad, iphone or ipod. It's so completely against the open source character kind regards, Harry 2011/10/19 Ian Tindale <[email protected]> > I know nothing about "Windows", having never used it in my life. I didn't > realise they had such a concept - last time I used an IBM PC clone it was > running a green screen text monitor. I'm talking of course about the app > store on my normal computer. > > On 19 October 2011 10:21, Gnome Nomad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ian Tindale wrote: >> >> There is a fourth option though. Obviously of the ones you mention, the >>> installer is the main option of interest to most people, but increasingly >>> there's the 'app store' mode of obtaining software. >>> >> >> "Appstore"? Oh, you mean that commercialization to work around the lack of >> a package management system in Windows? ;-) >> >> >> -- >> Gnome Nomad >> [email protected] >> wandering the landscape of god >> http://www.cafepress.com/**otherend/ <http://www.cafepress.com/otherend/> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. >> A list of frequently asked questions is available at: >> http://wiki.panotools.org/**Hugin_FAQ<http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <hugin-ptx%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/hugin-ptx <http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx> >> > > > > -- > *Ian Tindale* > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
