Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

[Pirmin Braun]

maybe the world has changed in favour for Web UI instead of Desktop UI?
For newcomers spending educational time on building Web Apps makes more sense 
than digging into NSView.
Those who really want to build Desktop Applications will head for Mac OS X as 
the real thing anyway. From what I saw at FOSDEM, everybody has got a Mac Book.
The Desktop Apps like Mail.app from GNUStep are nice and I love them. But this 
is the same love as to old motorcylces that remind me of my youth. Any host OS 
has got those Apps already out of the box.
I think, adding a GNUStep Framework to build fancy, industrial-strength, high 
performance/small footprint Web Apps in no time would boost interest. Once 
there was WebObjects. Now there is IntarS and I'd be happy to contribute. 
Have a look: 
http://pirmin.de/GSWeb/Aprica3000230.woa/?pw=root&loginname=Administrator
Anybody interested to help? Since we're a commercial Open Source company, there 
is also money available.

Am Fri, 9 Aug 2013 10:08:50 +0200
schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> :

> MAC-locked builds -- that is, DRM -- are an anathema to free software and the 
> project itself and FSF would not stand behind it.
> 
> Getting donations, selling SD cards or even charging for downloads is not, as 
> long as the end product is not DRMed.
> 
> (Not that I think charging for downloads would be a good idea.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ivan Vučica
> via phone
> 
> On 9. 8. 2013., at 09:25, "Dr Slivnik Tomaž MA (Cantab) MMath (Cantab) PhD 
> (Cantab) FTICA" <slivnik@tomaz.name> wrote:
> 
> > Would it be possible to produce a GnuStep-based desktop/distribution with a 
> > set of apps (as per my previous mails, and others'), very small, but all 
> > robust and well-built, and co-operating between themselves as API-based 
> > interchangeable components (e.g. Mail.app and AddressBook.app with 
> > AddressBook being used by Mail only via a published API with users being 
> > able to replace it) for Raspberry PI --- much in the way NeXT's MO was your 
> > "world" here the SD card would be.
> > 
> > One could build an SD-card image, and charge a $1 or $5 to generate a 
> > downloadable image configured to work with a given Mac address, or provide 
> > the SD image with limited functionality (say, everything but network 
> > connectivity) for free but charge $1 for a Mac-locked password to network 
> > enable it.
> > 
> > GnuStep could position itself as an educational system, a kind of "Pascal" 
> > versus Mac OS X's "C": no industrial-strength bleeding edge bells and 
> > whistles and experimental buggy, poorly thought out stuff, just 
> > well-thought-out orthogonal, mission critical, "just works" frameworks and 
> > apps.
> > 
> > The $1-$5 per seat could generate enough income to pay for an intern to 
> > package SD card distribution updates.
> > _______________________________________________
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