Re: really attracting developers

[joekewoud_]

On Sep 3, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> > having a windows like gui. (Come on guys, windows is the most used
> > platform! This would bring nextstep to the masses!)
>
> does that matter? seriously? if thats important for me i would not be
> using open source at all.
So as an open source developer, you don't care about recognition, or  
wide usability of your software...?
And who said that I would be only developing open source? Why not  
developing commercial software, and help develop gnustep at the same  
time, because I need some specific functionality. And some open- 
source for the fun of it.
> what is it exactly that you like about nextstep? the language? i dont
> really understand what you are trying to do.
I want to use it's api. Like nextstep an cocoa, it develops programs  
in a *beautiful* *fast* *simple* and *gratifying* way. More  
gratifying than programs written in any other framework.
> you are a windows programmer right? you would have to do that yourself
> or you could pay someone else to do that for you. but i doubt if a
> microsoft certified programmer would like to work with gnustep.
Well I have a Microsoft background. And I am sufficiently fed up with  
it.. So I was looking to writing osx, but writing for osx means  
having such a limited audience. They are so *protective*, which is  
really discouraging.
I am fully prepared to make a total new start. So I stared looking  
into gnustep. Like I already said, I could not get it right. So now I  
am stuck with writing for osx.
> nextstep is all about the vertical menus and left hand vertical scroll
> bar. its a complete ui design and it does not fit in windows. make it
> behave like windows and you just reinvented windows.
I am sorry that I want to produce something practical...
(I am using linux by the way, as a firewall. I hope I did not offend  
you personally.)

Ewoud