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). The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
