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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What we need to do REAL NeXT applications... (was: Re: NeXT/GNU license agreement w.r.t. Objective-C)
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Date: 19 Dec 90 21:28:15 GMT
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In-reply-to: rca@cs.brown.edu's message of 18 Dec 90 01:38:08 GMT

>I hope NeXT publishes the runtime sytem as well (of course I understand that
>they will not publish their appkit...). What do we really need if we
>want to program the NeXT way?

Bill Parkhurst stated a few months back that there were legal reasons
why they cannot do this.  My guess, judging from all of the StepStone
O-C features that were deprecated from 0.8 onwards is that they
started with StepStone runtime code and went on from there. Is
StepStone going to give away their work? Of course not.

Writing a runtime would be lots of fun though. I might need it myself
for some other work. If that happens I'll probably end up doing it.

- g
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