Re: Known MacOS programmer about WO/EOF

[Adrian Robert]

On Mar 29, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:
>  The mostly coined
> example here was that although GNUstep GUI is still missing some 
> important
> classes/methods it already has 3+ backends, some of them even for
> graphical libraries which are beta at best itself.

And how many incomplete Preferences apps?  ;-)  The problem is the same 
as with all open-source projects -- starting something from scratch is 
just more enjoyable than the work to harden and fill missing gaps in 
something existing.  And the latter invariably takes more time and 
effort than the "starting out" part.  To one degree or another, an open 
source project has to either motivate open-source programmers to resist 
their natural impulses to start new projects, or develop some type of 
symbiosis with corporate interests.