Side effects?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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


The "gui that is open source" is the hypothetical MacPorts GUI, not Xcode. Sean was asserting that if Ian were to commence work on an open source GUI (in contrast to Kevin's closed-source PortAuthority), he would be able to benefit from the efforts of others.

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