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1. DOWNLOAD DARWIN.ISO SOFTWARE
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DOWNLOAD DARWIN.ISO SOFTWARE

He cares if software is Free Software (not 'GNU/Linux'.that's not a 'movement', license, or method of 's a software package.Free Software is a movement, as is Open Source). RMS indeed does not care if anything is Open Source. It is therefore no better than the aforementioned worse-case closed-source scenarious.

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I suppose it's nice that Darwin sources are available, but if Apple kicks the bucket, all the code in the world won't change the license restrictions into something which allows people the freedom to work independantly on the software and share their improvements with the world. Much like OS/2, nobody can modify the OS to any genuinely useful extent, and so it has been stale for years. Commodore is at least six feet under right now, but at one time was seen as having no danger of folding, with one of the most competent desktop operating systems in existance to their name, and killer hardware to match. Or, the Amiga OS (what was it, Workbench?). None of the other huge computer companies (Apple, MSFT, etc) are as bull-headed as IBM when it comes to supporting and maintaining forgotten things, but OS/2 is (by their own admission) quite dead.ĭid I mention that it is closed-source, and thus the few nagging bugs which persist will very likely never be fixed at any point in the future? Apple's not going to ditch the core of their OS. THE SOFTWARE IS COOL AND SUPPORTED BY SOMEONE I KNOW WILL BE THERE TOMORROW, versus OS projects that can disappear if the maintainer decides to ditch it. So one day I hope things will look better, but right now anything with a complex interface would be a pain to port to GNUstep. This means to build OSX apps, you'd have to rewrite the makefiles (pretty simple), and either convert the nib's to something your app can use (conversion is very rough, doesn't work well) or rewrite your interface by hand. Finally, Cocoa apps used a completely different makefile format and also store interfaces in nib files which are in a semi-proprietary format. Third, there's an amazing lack of interest in the GNUstep project so it is not moving all that fast. Second, the GNUstep folks are trying to catch up to a moving target (Cocoa). Currently, it's not there yet for several reasons.įirst, AppKit has some work to do on the more advanced controls (like the text model).

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Basically, at best GNUstep will one day give you source compatability (meaning don't hold your breath for those proprietary closed source mac apps). Core foundation is 99% complete currently, and very usable. GNUstep is a GNU project to create an open source set of frameworks that conform to the OpenStep (now Cocoa) API. So, given that the Darwin Streaming Server is open source, unless you really want to give oceans of money to Real or MS, the smartest thing to do is to contribute to the project - fix what you don't like, and everyone benefits. Darwin Streaming Server costs nothing but raw hardware costs (aside from third-party encoding tools), so it's far cheaper than Real or MS. The Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server Internet Connector English North America Unlimited Clients license alone is $$1,999.00, and Real costs $50 per peak stream, on top of hardware costs. I don't know what a cheaper alternative would be to a rack of $995 Sun or Linux boxen running QTS. You can run QuickTime Streaming Server on BSD and Linux, among other OS's. It is the most mature streaming server (kicks the sh*t out of MS or QTS) but costs around 450/stream (depending on volume pricing).ĥ. If you care about more than a few streams, brace yourself to pay $10K+ for the license. Real is only free for trivial applications. steal it) to save money, but that's not something I'd advocate.Ĥ. Sure, you could ignore the license terms of the product (i.e.

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Windows Media Services isn't free, it's part of Windows 2000 Server, which has substantial per-seat charges ($1,999.00 for unlimited user internet license, per machine). It doesn't run on MacOS (unless someone has ported it since I looked).ģ. The Darwin Streaming Server is a UNIX application (MacOS X, Solaris, etc.) with an NT port. We're talking about the Darwin OS, not the Darwin Streaming Server, so the whole post is completely off topic.Ģ. There are an impressive number of confusions in this troll/post.ġ.