Re: EOF undead?
Re: EOF undead?
- Subject: Re: EOF undead?
- From: Dave Thorup <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:01:41 -0600
On 7/2/03 12:43 PM, "Matthew Formica" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
Unfortunately, given that Panther and its APIs are still under NDA, they are
>
not an appropriate topic of conversation for this mailing list.
This is something I don't understand. Why is this all covered under NDA?
Panther has been announced publicly as well as XCode. If I am correct in my
understanding of the NDA (from what I've heard from other developers since I
didn't get to go to WWDC and read it myself) it prevents even developers in
the same company/development team from talking about NDA'd features (please
correct me if I'm wrong). So a company could send one developer to WWDC and
then he would come back and not be able to share anything. How does this
help Apple, or benefit the community?
Why should only a tiny percentage of Apple's developers be allowed exclusive
knowledge of the new APIs? I'd like to make my apps all they can be too.
I'd like to benefit from advanced knowledge so I can prepare for the future.
To my knowledge, past WWDCs were much more open and not encumbered by an
NDA. This seems to have started last year and I really hope it doesn't
continue on as the standard for WWDCs to come. I'd really like to go to
WWDC, I really would, but the cost is just something I cannot afford.
What makes the situation even more confusing is that Panther and XCode and
many new features were displayed _VERY_ publicly during the Keynote.
Panther and XCode are hardly secrets anymore and developers should be able
to share the knowledge that was distributed at WWDC.
I for one am getting an increasingly bitter taste in my mouth when WWDC
rolls around and Apple feels that the knowledge they share is for their
small core of elite developers only. There are thousands of us out there
that would like the same information.
____________________________________
Dave Thorup
Software Engineer
email@hidden
www.kuwan.net
Defaults Manager - The premier editor for Mac OS X's User Defaults /
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