Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
- Subject: Re: EOF Advocacy, Open Source?
- From: "Ed Baskerville" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:22:19 -0700
d) (a) + (b), a la Darwin. Support EOF as part of Cocoa, with community
help. That'll (1) give Apple more development resources on the project; (2)
get the technology to those who need it sooner; (3) give Apple brownie
points.
Somehow I doubt we'll get (c). We may get a straight "no" without a reason,
however, which is valid but disappointing.
Another thing: why doesn't Apple create an infrastructure for third-party
open-source classes and frameworks to be rolled into Cocoa?
I think that's something that would be worth pursuing for Apple; done right,
it could add a lot of cool features to Cocoa quickly. Again, Think Darwin.
Obviously I'm not expecting the stuff Apple develops internally to become
open source, since Cocoa is decidedly in the
we-won't-open-source-this-because-it's-proprietary category. But allowing
open-source development of add-ons that eventually became part of the Apple
frameworks would be very cool.
--Ed Baskerville
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From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:27:55 +0200
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To: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: EOF Advocacy
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Cc: email@hidden, email@hidden
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Reply-To: email@hidden
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Heather,
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hallo? Are you here?
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>>>>>> Scott Anguish (SA) wrote at Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:53:27 -0400:
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SA> Heather Hickman is the Cocoa Technology Manager (I hope that's your
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SA> title Heather) and she really seemed to listen to this (over and over
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SA> and over) at WWDC.. I'm sure she reads this list
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SA>
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SA> but I doubt that there is much you can do to convince Apple of this.
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Well, looks to me Apple can do one of the following:
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(a) support EOF as part of Cocoa (even for extra money that would be
great:
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I would pay at least $XXX for that, perhaps even more, and I bet I'm not
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alone);
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(b) publish the sources, so as _we_ can do that, somewhat like it happened
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ages ago with MusicKit;
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(c) tell us straight something as "Nope, we won't do (a) nor (b) since
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Oracle paid us a fortune not to do so, so as their proprietary API is the
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best way for OS X. So forget portable and easily made database apps in OS
X,
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and be happy".
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Well, is there any (d)? I mean, any sensible one?
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Ondra Cada
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