Re: Linux Applications for OS X

"George Graves" <gmgraves2@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
0001HW.C2EA046702C22550F0182648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 8/16/07 1:40 PM:

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.

As an example of this, I am running, via VMWare, Windows and Ubuntu on my
Mac. I had Ubuntu open as my wife and one of her friends came into my
office... the friend asked what it was I was working on because it looked so
bad. I played for a minute and showed them the different themes that come
with Ubuntu - and they concluded, knowing nothing of Linux or even what OSS
means, that whatever I was working on needed the help of a good designer.
They simply would not want to work with a computer that was so ugly.


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