elvin ibbotson wrote:
Guys, I understand what you're saying and in general I agree, it's better to use an open and portable technology than a closed-source like MS. But I live in a real world, my programming skills are in C# and MS.NET (mostly because I also use it in professional life, for which I'm only partly to blame). If I had decided 10 months ago that I'll start implementing Kosmos in Java (not to mention migrating from Windows to Linux), then Kosmos would now still be just a simple command-line tool (or maybe I would have given up, who knows). It's the experience in a technology that allows me to concentrate on a concrete problem I'm solving and not on the nitty-gritties of a particular technology. While I believe in portable apps, I find portable GUI-s to be quite lacking regarding the user experience (at least on Windows, I don't know about other OS's). There are exceptions, of course. Anyway, Kosmos is open-source (I'll release the new source with the upcoming 2.1 release) and has quite a liberal license so if anyone's interested and has the time and will, he can "cannibalize" the code and make something new and portable. Igor -- http://igorbrejc.net |
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