Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
There's only one catch for me. It only runs on MacOS X. I have seen a number of really innovative Macintosh applications go by in the last few months. Aquamind's Notetaker is another that comes easily to mind. I keep toying with the idea of switching back (I was a long time Macintosh user). I just can't convince myself to do it. I know that Mac developers are experiencing very high degrees of productivity with Cocoa and Smalltalk, er, Objective-C. But I can't get past the closed-source issue with Cocoa. I've watched too many great apps die: Lotus Agenda, Think Tank, More, Arrange, InControl, Ecco Professional, and more. If I'm going to switch to a new platform, I want to switch onto a predominantly open-source platform. I would be happy to pay for open source versions of Hydra or Notetaker -- I want those guys to be able to eat and do cool software. But I don't want to gamble with my data anymore. So for now, I'll live with the slow pain of watching the Mac guys do cool software that I can't run.
Some applications compile on both platforms (OSX, *nix), see this page for examples.
Posted by mjang at Thu Apr 3 08:01:34 2003
Some applications compile on both platforms (OSX, *nix), see this page for examples.
Posted by mjang at Thu Apr 3 08:01:53 2003
Modern processors turn out to be really efficient at parsing, so these days just about everyone writes files in something nice and easy to parse, usually a dialect of XML. Now, it's possible to devise XML that nobody can read -- I hear than's what Microsoft is doing in the next Office iteration -- but in general you can read and reuse these files with a modest investment of labor.
You data is yours (again).
Posted by Mark Bernstein at Sun Apr 6 08:23:33 2003
The other issue is that I want to be able to modify and customize my apps. Not everyone wants to do this, but I do, and I can't, so one more reason for open source.
Posted by Ted Leung at Sun Apr 6 10:55:25 2003
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