Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- Subject: Re: TrollTech releases QT for Mac under GPL
- From: Greg Weston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:11:21 -0400
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 05:25 PM, Jeff Harrell wrote:
Not going to happen. When Apple made the promise of YB/Win, I never
could figure out what the business case for that, apart from a sudden
urge to satisfy suicidal tendencies.
Uh. The business case is to allow Apple and Apple developers to write
applications that can be deployed on Windows, and to give Windows
developers an API through which they can write applications that can be
deployed on the Mac.
The first one is key for things like iTunes, and the second one is good
for everybody. Windows programmers get a better toolkit, and Mac users
get the benefit of more applications.
The business case seems clear. What am I missing?
An explanation of exactly how it's in Apple's best interests to give
Windows developers a better toolkit when there's absolutely no promise
that Mac builds would arise. And you can't say "but why wouldn't they
because the Mac builds would be 'free'" because:
a) We've all seen people turn down good ideas for bad reasons.
b) It's not free. TCP-enablement is almost de rigeur for any app that
might possibly have something to gain from it. Now say the phrase
"endian issues."
It should be noted, btw, that before the NeXT merger Apple already had
a surprisingly good cross-platform toolkit: QuickTime. Not _as_good_ as
YB would have been, not least because it wasn't supported as a
general-use API but it did work.
G
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