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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Wed, 02 Apr 2003
Hydra everywhere
Hydra is making the blog rounds today.
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Have your heard of gnustep? They are recreating the Cocoa API and licensing it under the LGPL.
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 08:01:34 2003
Have your heard of gnustep? They are recreating the Cocoa API and licensing it under the LGPL.
Some applications compile on both platforms (OSX, *nix), see this page for examples.
Posted by mjang at Thu Apr 3 08:01:53 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
One of the BIG changes since the Taligent era is the general embrace of open data files. We all used to save data files as flattened memory images, which made for horribly binary formats that nobody could (or would want to) read again. So, losing you application was a Very Big Deal.
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
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
Yes, I know all about XML -- I helped write one of the most popular Java XML parsers. Unfortunately, the existence of XML does not automatically mean my data is mine. My Quickbooks and Microsoft Money files are not XML. My old Turbotax files are not XML.
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
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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