Wise comment. Mac and Windows seems from my perspective to be basically a matter of personal preference with Apple being the more restrictive of the two in the ways in which Open Source people care about. Its Coke and Pepsi, both having too much sugar, one a bit more than the other.
Open Source is genuinely different, and reasonable people can differ, and differ strongly, with its approach and values and its aims for the role of computing and media in our society. This is the source of some genuine tensions for Rev. But Curry is right, one needs to keep the issues with Rev or Rodeo to the level of what makes business sense for everyone. It is very interesting that one result of the WebKit approach for Rodeo is that it puts all OSs on the same level as far as accessing the applications once written. The thing I remain cautious about with regard to iPhone and iPad is what Apple's ultimate reaction will be when and if webkit based apps, from Rodeo and other sources, start to bypass the app store on any scale. Maybe they never will, maybe the store is well enough established by now. Maybe corporate vertical market applications are where the money is, anyway. Jerry also takes the view there will be nothing they can or will do about it, even if it happens. Maybe so. The Rodeo vision however is genuinely cross platform, with a lot of the heavy lifting done by stuff that is out there already in the form of standards. And when one thinks about Firefox and Explorer in this context, they are in quite different situations, though neither one is webkit: Firefox could change, since webkit is OSS and so is webkit. Explorer obviously could not. After all, Gnome changed with the new Galeon. This looked like a significant development. You may not have been around during the wars of religion between Gnome and KDE? Gnome were the purists on OSS, and issued fatwas on KDE because KDE were using Trolltech development environment, QT, which Gnome considered to be not authentically open. Which in some ways it really was not. The counter argument was that Gtk was unusable. All this eventually got amicably resolved when QT became open beyond reproach. Even so, for Gnome to adopt webkit looks like an interesting development which lends support to the Rodeo peoples argument about it being the browser, not the OS, that you need to write for. The sleeper may be Apple. The business model they have in mind is not one where apps are written once and run equally on all OSs and desktop environments, and where people access whatever content and apps they want from whatever source they choose, any more than that is the model MS have in mind. But that is the logical end point of Rodeo and similar products. We'll see. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Mac-vs-Win-partisanship-is-unnecessary-tp2297989p2298273.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution