Re: Linux Applications for OS X

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:26:13 -0700, Rick wrote
(in article <13c8k3l8m58p045@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:50:14 -0700, Snit wrote:

"Rick" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
13c7kqttdmn0if0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 8/15/07 9:32 PM:

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:48:01 -0700, Snit wrote:

"Rick" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
13c7dtg8jk6o8c2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 8/15/07 7:34 PM:

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:05:12 -0700, George Graves wrote:

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:38:56 -0700, Rick wrote (in article
<13c6p304ntvjob1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:34:18 -0700, George Graves wrote:

(Snip)

The only one that actually lives up to the potential of opensource
software is OpenOffice and it's where it is mostly because of Sun.

So what if it is where it is at because of Sun? And, BTW, there is
a large OpenOffice community.

Yeah, there is, but why does it take so long to get anything done?
Seems to me that most open source apps are never "finished" and
every version is either v1.0 "candidate" or a beta.

Name a CSS app that is "finished".

The current Mac OS and the current iLife and iWork suites... and many
other examples. They have a finished feel and are well polished.
Note that was not true of the past version of iWork...

... then I do not expect to see any further updates for iLife or iWork.



Everything gets updates.

Irrelevant.

It is not.

We are using the idea of "finished" differently. I mean it as in
shipping a product with polish, you mean it as shipping a product that
will never be updated. Heck, based on your definition AppleWorks is a
finished product - but it does not have the polish of modern apps, so I
would not consider it finished... in that context. I assume George was
using the term more like I am than you are.

He's hung up on the version numbering thing:
"every version is either v1.0 "candidate" or a beta."



Actually, Snit is right (imagine that?!). To me finished means "ready for
primetime" as opposed to "a work in progress". Most OSS has the look and feel
of something that a software developer company would put out as a public beta
of a new product with features missing or not working or not real stable.

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