Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!midway!news From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Programmers should move from mac to NeXT Message-ID: <1990Nov14.213552.16405@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 20:27:40 GMT Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Followup-To: comp.sys.next Distribution: comp Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 41 ------ In article <1990Nov14.184025.22185@Neon.Stanford.EDU>, philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes... >In article , anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen R. Anderson) writes: >[League for Programming Freedom stuff]: >|> viable alternative that programmers should embrace and encourage, the >|> NeXT. Support your right to develop the best programs you can: move >|> from the monopolistic mac to the NeXT. > >I don't want to enter into the debate about whether LPF's boycott Apple >strategy is right / effective, but I wonder if NeXT is really in the LPF >camp. If you develop a NeXT application, and port it to another machine, >including copying the "look and feel" WITHOUT using a licenced version of >NeXTstep, what will NeXT's response be? They aren't giving their interface >technology away - it is rumoured to have cost IBM millions. Like Guy Kawasaki said in "The Macintosh Way": "EXERCISE: Write a high-end word processor and spreadsheet for the NeXT machine. Clone the look and feel of the NeXT machine for another computer. See if NeXT sues you". :-> I remember when the Next first came out someone wrote an INIT that made that Mac look like a Next (more or less). I heard at the time that Jobs got in touch with whomever did it and told them to cut it out (maybe this was reported in MacWeek, maybe it was a bogus rumour; who knows?). Off the subject a bit, I think it takes a lot of gall to come into the Mac newsgroup and post an article telling everyone why they shouldn't program the Mac. I think that anderson@sapir has a right to do so, since this is a free country, but sheesh! Robert ============================================================================ = gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu * generic disclaimer: * "It's more fun to = = * all my opinions are * compute" = = * mine * -Kraftwerk = ============================================================================