🚀 go-pugleaf

David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
> >Is splitting them up into a lot of monopolies all specialists in several
> >areas (particularly if they're all part of the "M$loth Group", or whatever)
> >any good?
> 
> If their applications division is separate from their OS division, they
> no longer have the same interest in having their applications only run on
> Windows; they can maximise their profit by porting them everywhere.

And will Orifice 2001 "for linux" be written to use GTK+? (Or QT for those
who absolutely have to be so inclined :) Or will it be basically a port
like *Orifice where the interface implementation bloats all usability out
of the underlying desktop?

> Arguably, the suddenly not completely crap MacOS support we've seen
> recently is in preparation for this.

Interesting idea (says me, with powerbook on the way soon, I hope ;)

> Likewise, the OS division maximise profit by ensuring that everyone's
> apps run well on their OS.
> 
> In the long term, of course, they make less money than they would from an
> unholy alliance (like the situation at present) where Windows-specific
> apps make one run Windows, and the fact that Microsoft apps work better
> on Windows than (say) Corel's apps do makes one buy those; but they see a
> short-term profit boost if they defect, and...

Sounds frightfully confuddling, and still rather "80s" commercial (as in
commercial-multiple-UNIXen, not just NT.v.world).

I'm still sort of wondering about whether a true open-source fan will note
the OS-independence and take up porting windoze apps to everything or
whether some bigotry is allowed. Or indeed whether there's not already too
much of the "linux *is* 'open-source'" opposite at the moment.

I feel like the Sourcerer in PTerry's 'Sourcery'... world just not big
enough for the philosophies... ;|

~Tim
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