On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 09:29 AM, Lee Larson wrote:

(Stuff removed)

> It seems to me that Apple ought to just publish the programming 
> interfaces they use and let anyone else use them. After all, this is 
> uncomfortably close to Microsoft's time-tested strategy of keeping 
> certain Windows operating system routines secret so that, for example, 
> Word, can outperform Word Perfect.
>
> --
> Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville
> Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132
>
>

Agreed, After all, it is supposed to be based around open-source 
approaches (though Apple's version seems to be a little less open than 
the GNU version).


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