Side effects?

[Chris Jones]

On 01/02/13 08:36, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Chris Jones<jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>  wrote:
>
>> I don't see how those two comments are connected.
>
> It went something like this:
>
>>> However, for me there is a learning curve to be climbed on Objective C, Cocoa and Xcode.  I don't know if I have the energy for that.  I will be 75 next month and I wrote my first computer program about 50 years ago in Autocoder on a Ferrant Sirius, which is now in a local museum.  So don't expect too much … :-)
>>
>> I just want to point out that this is where having a gui that is open source would really help: the responsibility wouldn't have to be shouldered by just one person.

Well yes, one particular person may well be more or less familiar with 
certain toolkits, but that is not what was being discussed.

I still do not see the connection between the licensing of a particular 
toolkit and the number of authors that can work on it project using it.

Chris