Re: Discuss-gnustep Digest, Vol 36, Issue 37

[Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.]

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On 2005-11-26 21:25:16 +0800 Michael Thaler
<michael.thaler@physik.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:


> And nextstep/openstep is dead for a long time. Without Steve Jobs 
> noone would 
> care for nextstp/openstep at all anymore. Steve Jobs did the right 
> thing. He 
> turned nextstep into something the average Joe user can and wants to 
> use. 
> Steve Jobs allways managed to make things that excite people. But 
> gnustep is 
> not exciting for the average Joe user. It is an excellent development 
> framework based on an excellent language, but there are absolutely no 
> applications which make it worth using gnustep, it looks ugly 
> compared to 
> MacOSX, KDE or GNOME (this is of course personal preference but I am 
> quite 
> sure if you ask 100 average computer users which look they like most, 
> gnustep 
> will be the loser by a wide margin), it interoperates badly with 
> every other 
> free desktop environement (which is bad because there are essential 
> apps like 
> a browser missing in gnustep) and it is hard to install.

Not really. Mac OS X is openstep. Its very much alive. In fact I
started to get interested in GNUstep when i dug a little bit into Mac
OS X documentation. It showed that the design is sound and
commercially viable.

The core developers of GNUstep want a portable cross platform
development environment. They just dont care if its popular or not.
They have something they can use and if the rest of the world thinks
otherwise then, well, so what?

GNUstep is not going to go away. Im using an almost all GNUstep
laptop. I built it by hand from sources but of course its not
complete. Its running on debian and the browser is firefox. Its not
wise to start hyping gnustep before we have something like a nextstep
reincarnation.

Thats just my opinion anyway.
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