Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
- Subject: Re: What could we do to convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
- From: Pascal Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:21:23 -0400
I know that the community, Mike, Chuck, Pascal, Anjo and ... ,
are doing great work to promote WO, but I not totally agree the way
they do it.
I give enough money to Apple, buying Macs, iPhone, iPods and iTunes
Music
( I'm very happy client, http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=191345352&id=191345213&s=143442
),
I don't wants spent time to do the marketing of a non opensourced
product (WebObjects), marketing they have never done.
The question I'm asking to myself and you , what could we do to
convince Apple to opensource WebObjects ?
It's simple : Apple is a business with stock options, so they only
want money like all public-listed business wants. And the annual
surveys that I do are to show to Apple and the rest of the world that
people ARE using WO outside of Apple, but the problem is that
according to last year survey, the community outside Apple only
have... 385 developers! I can't think of any other ways to find out
how big the community is.
And also WO is getting bad press lately, either in the Web medias or
on Twitter so only four of us are answering to people who say stupid
things. For me, it look like the community just don't care. People
have to realize that getting bad press is not helping, if someone
wants to learn more about WO and do a seach on Google, they will find
outdated tutorials, people bitching about WO URLs (without
understanding why they are like this) and news about WO support being
dropped in SL.
Apple lives on hype and money, and we don't generate hype and we can't
show, outside of the surveys, that Apple is making money with us. So
for me, WO is almost dead for outsiders, but hey I'm stupid so I will
continue to pay from my own pockets to organize WOWODC and host
wocommunity.org.
Why Apple is doing opensource for some technologies , WebKit, Grand
Central Dispatch ... but not for WO ?
They don't have patents on WebKit...
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