I think that on the Mac certainly, the change (or lack of it) came when Apple decided to create their frameworks to support application development. The first gen was Carbon and now they have moved onto Cocoa and people such as the Real Software the developers of RealBasic have suffered in the changeover so I don't think you can really blame M$ on that one. As for Linux/Unix then I think it was M$'s inability to accept that Linux/Unix existed in anything other than the SCO Xenix flavour which was totally character based.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 19 May 2014 16:08 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: What would you like.... On 2014-05-19 10:59, Kevin Cully wrote: > Cross platform. I don't want to develop for 90% of the desktops. I > want to develop applications for 99% of the desktops. > > There was a time that Fox ran on DOS, Windows, Mac and Unix. It'd be > nice to have that again. Yep. Can there be any other reason for them dropping Mac and Unix support other than them not wanting apps for non-Windows systems (to keep the Windows dominance)? [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/18725b8cd2d5d247873a2baf401d4ab22a50d...@ex2010-a-fpl.fpl.LOCAL ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
