Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)
Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)
- Subject: Re: EOF (was Re: Cocoa CGI)
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 00:21:36 -0700
At 8:49 AM -0500 5/22/01, David W. Halliday wrote:
Annard, I most certainly have to agree: In /any and all/ cases where
Apple is requiring developers to use Java for their development, they cause
us, as developers, to reevaluate our targeting and API plans. Why use Cocoa
when one if forced to use Java, when Cocoa will only be usable on one
platform? Why not use the 100% pure Java APIs?
Exactly. Why write for 5% of the market?
I take it back -- I don't think EOF offers *enough* competitive
advantage to overcome this issue.
After walking out of the EOF session in anger today, I later realized
(after the Stepwise BOF) what open source really means:
Open source software means never having to tell your customers, "I'm sorry."
It means never having to backstab your developers.
It means never having to say, "well, we don't have the resources to
maintain it, but we don't want to license it to a competitor [they
tried it once. Hated it.] and giving it away would mean we couldn't
make megabucks on the more limited (but more marketable) version we
just wrote."
In other words, it means never having to tell your loyal developers
that their needs and wants aren't important to you -- regardless of
how important an individual issue may be to them.
Which means one has more developers, which leads to more apps, which
leads to more market share.
Or, conversely:
"Fear is the path to the dark side; fear leads to anger,
anger leads to hate - hate leads to suffering." -- Yoda
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