Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
- Subject: Re: EOF - was (Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa) )
- From: "Douglas A. Welton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:59:46 -0400
on 10/14/02 7:26 PM, Brian E. Howard at email@hidden wrote:
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From everything I've read it would make my life easier. Let's get a
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partition or something going and send it direct to Jobs. Not an e-mail
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campaign but a real ink on paper document suitable for framing;
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depending on how many sign up for it, several copies could be
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snail-mailed around for the signatures, collected, collated, and sent
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direct to the Mother Ship.
Would (yet-another) petition really do any good? I would be hard pressed to
find any CEO who runs his business based primarily on "petitions."
If I were the person wanting to affect real change in this situation, I
would approach Apple with a well-developed business plan that went beyond
anecdotal evidence ( "...my friend Generic Bob could write a Killer App if
he just had EOF..."). Some solid estimates (note: I said "estimates") of
the revenue potential and ROI of a persistent object framework (POF) might
just turn the right heads.
Or an easier sell might be to partner with one of the third-tier UNIX
vendors with an existing C-based POF and see if they want to exchange their
status as a "little fish in a big pond" for one of being a "big fish in a
small pond". Market share can make you seem a lot more important than you
really are ;^}
All this having been said, I don't know that someone hasn't already done
this or is not currently in the process of doing it. But, from my point of
view, there's an opportunity there for those willing to see the situation in
light of pioneering a new and innovative technology for the Mac OS X
platform (without having to have Apple as dependency, i.e., "risk factor").
Just my 2 cents...
later,
douglas
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