Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Andreas Höschler]

> One thing that amazed me is that people don't seem to care about the 
> fact that your
> beloved Cocoa (or OSX for that matters) could very well be thrown by 
> Apple (or
> simply, Apple could just go out of business). It's really incredible 
> to be so blind with
> the #1 interest of GNUstep -- its free software nature -- while so 
> many astounding
> things were removed from the market (OPENSTEP, 
> OpenStep/Windows/Solaris, EOF..)

Thanks Nicolas. That's exactly my point. GNUstep gui (of course) still 
has some drawbacks, but being forced to fix a bug here and there in gui 
- or even reimplementing a class - is nothing compared to the danger of 
Apple taking Objectve-C/Cocoa from the market (very unlikely) or from 
Apple going out of business (who knows). Who wants to bet his live on 
that. China has decided to use Linux, not Windows but also not MacOSX. 
It was reported that they are going to purchase 1 Million copies of Sun 
Java Desktop (SuSE Linux plus some Java apps) every year from now on. 
We are in the enterprise market. It's pretty hard to convince medium 
sized companies to replace PCs with Macs. Putting Linux on existing 
hardware or reintroducing thin clients like the SunRays is (seems to 
me) a bit easier. All our work (many many man years) is based on 
Objective-C and OPENSTEP API. I couldn't sleep anymore if the existence 
of my company depended on Apple alone. As long as MacOSX is on the 
market it is a brilliant - and currently our preferred - development 
platform. But the point is, if it goes away, there's GNUstep. If a 
customer does not like Macs, there's GNUstep. If a customer does not 
like GNUstep either ...

Just my 2 cents!

Regards,

   Andreas