Hey Anjo,
While I appreciate and agree that we should all be Mac developers,
this is just not a reality in the world. In our particular case, with
our project (http://pachyderm.sourceforge.net/) , we have no choice
but to open development to non-Mac OS X platforms, as it's an open
source project that was started as a granted project with the
explicit ability for cross-platform deployment and development. When
we started the project, WO development was available and supported on
all platforms. Now that support on all platforms for development
tools has been deprecated, why should there be separate legal status
for Mac OS X than non-Mac? I agree, Apple wants to sell more
computers, but there are better ways than suing developers to do this.
If I have to report that development is only legal on the Mac, this
could seriously cripple the project. It's a project that's also
gaining wide use in educational institutions, which are government-
funded, and pay close attention to the legality of their activity.
So, just relying on the laxity of enforcers is not really going to
work for us. I guess it's time to lean on apple and get clarification
on this.
Joshua
On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Anjo Krank wrote:
>
> Am 18.04.2007 um 18:09 schrieb Joshua Archer:
>
>> It seems completely ridiculous to allow for development on Apple
>> for free and on cross-platform open source tools, and deployment
>> explicitly permitted on any platform, but to restrict what OS a
>> developer decides to use when running the same IDE as they would
>> be using on Mac OS X. Why should it be legal to copy the
>> WebObjects libraries to a non-Mac platform for deployment, but not
>> for development?
>
> Because, lemme see... oh yeah, I got it! Apple want to sell
> computers to developers!
>
> Now I'm pretty sure that the Apple Cubicle Police will not come
> after you if you decide (foolishly) to develop on Windows. It's
> more that if you are accountable to some higher ups, you may have a
> problem.
>
> Cheers, Anjo
>
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Phone: 707.664.2085, Fax: 707.664.4350
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