There's a pretty big gap between Cocoa and CoreX libraries, and using GNUstep. Or so I've been told. So, unfortunately, yeah, probably wishful thinking :(
On Nov 25, 8:02 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > My theory (or wishful thinking): they're trying to sweet talk Apple into > adding Blu-Ray to Macs. > > It's really a pain not to have a Blu-Ray player on my Mac. > > -- > Cédric > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <reini...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > So many reasons. > > > The most obvious ones: > > > - Cheap ploy to court iPhone developers. > > > - GNUstep is a lot more open than java. GNUstep is AFAIK open source > > primarily written by linux hackers. That'd be quite different and > > would feel a lot more open even before Oracle made the capital mistake > > of blowing up their own "openness" credibility by suing google based > > on patents. (Just to beat the dead horse some more: Whether or not > > Oracle is justified in trying to keep the java platform unified, the > > way they've gone about suing google is cyanide to the idea that you > > can trust OpenJDK for this sort of stuff, and very dangerous to the > > open source community. Possibly a good idea, but they should have > > found some other way). > > > - On embedded devices I can see the point of not wanting a platform > > that is effectively designed around having a hefty VM for it to run > > fast. (J2ME notwithstanding, but that has its own problems). > > > On Nov 24, 11:07 pm, CKoerner <chessm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If Blu-Ray players choose Java, why not Snap? > > > >http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/pages/about/ > > > > Sony’s Networked Application Platform is a project designed to > > > leverage the open source community to build and evolve the next > > > generation application framework for consumer electronic devices. […] > > > > The foundation upon which this project is base comes from the GNUstep > > > community, whose origin dates back to the OpenStep standard developed > > > by NeXT Computer Inc (now Apple Computer Inc.). While Apple has > > > continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac > > > OS X, the GNUstep branch of the tree has diverged considerably. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups > > .com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
