On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 07:28 -0500, drew Roberts wrote: > > Another thought is "why is the almost equally closed OSX more accepted > > than Windows?" > > Here's some jet fuel to throw in on top of the petrol... > > Because peole see apple as cool and the underdog and because darwin did the > work apple intended? There's a much simpler reason from a developer's perspective. OS X is a unix operating system. There are plenty of business&marketing&freedom reasons to be upset with Microsoft, but first and foremost for a lot of coders is the simple truth that their software technology is just really really awful in almost every way. OS X is not perfect (nothing is), but assuming you picked a GUI toolkit that runs well on OS X, porting a *nix program to OS X is generally less than a day's work, sometimes just an hour or so, and typically without any source code changes at all. This is hard to accomplish with a Windows port (not impossible, just harder), and even then the semantic differences in the way some of the underlying Windows OS services actually work can cause issues for finickety software. In addition, for me personally there is the fact that Apple just seems to get user interface design right the vast majority of the time, and its inspiring to work on such a platform, despite its proprietariness and occasional crappiness. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
