Re: Sony SNAP

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,

Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Am 20.11.2010 15:46, schrieb Riccardo Mottola:
>   
>> Furthermore, in some of the links Gregory posted, they describe our
>> adherence to OpenStep and our following of cocoa in this manner:
>>
>>    * They add methods and classes, either from Cocoa or their own
>>    extensions, if they add substantial value and don't interfere with
>>    OpenStep and/or Cocoa compatibility.
>>    * They generally don't remove things unless there is a clearly
>>    better implementation in newer Cocoa API
>>    * Where there is a real problem with a change, they will attempt
>>    find a technically superior work-around. In rare cases, this might
>>    involve a change in the original OpenStep API
>>
>>
>> I personally like this description! It also shows some blue in the sky,
>> given the current bashing and destructive thread we are having here lately.
>>     
>
> Great that you like these statements. They are actually taken from our
> GNUstep mission statement :-)
> http://www.gnustep.org/information/mission.html
>
> But I have to admit that this is really deeply hidden in our web site
> and it took me some time to find, even though I know what I was looking
> for.
>
>   
I just was pointed to this one here, might be of interest:
http://blog.deliciousrobots.com/2010/11/27/sonys-changes-to-gnustep-gui-library-adding-touch/


cheers,
Sebastian