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Konfabulator Coming to Windows
islandroots writes "Arlo Rose, developer of the popular Konfabulator widget, is moving his application from Mac OS X to Windows. Back when Apple unveiled their next OS, Mac OS X Tiger with Dashboard, Arlo Rose accused Apple of copying his application. 'We're all diehard Macintosh developers here, but we recognize that Windows is the dominant platform,' Rose said in a statement. 'When you have a great idea, you want more than 2 percent of the global market to have access to it.'"
"We're all diehard Macintosh developers here, but we recognize that Windows is the dominant platform," Rose said in a statement. "When you have a great idea, you want more than 2 percent of the global market to have access to it."
I wonder how much time he spent thinking of ways to improve Konfabulator to give people an incentive to use it instead of Dashboard. It would seem from this statement and the article that he just sort of rolled over.
Also, I didn't see anything in the article about it and the Konfabulator website is loading slooooow as hell, but do they intend to coninue developing Konfabulator for OS X? When this originally hit the news there was a pretty large backlash and a lot of people came out in support of Konfabulator. I really hope they don't intend to just ditch them all.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there was already a "Dashboard" for Gnome that has very similar functionality (thought development is slow).
http://www.nat.org/dashboard/
Ultimately, aren't they all just rip-offs of GDesklets and Karamba anyway?
I'm guessing you are talking about Hypercard.
All in all, its not really even a new paintjob as much as it is just a different engine. I had hypercard apps that could do all the same look and feel with the right free externals (remember -- the original Myst was written in Hypercard -- it still looks as beautiful today as it did back then).
This is what pisses me off about the whole Arlo Rose They Stole Mahhhh Idear bit...he was part of the team that was developing ideas like this at Apple. Its not like he didn't know this stuff was already available to the public. He changed the engine to one of his own (actually I heard it was a reappropriated BSD'd XMLHTTP engine -- which is cool if thats what happened as the BSD is intended to allow folks to do almost whatever they want with the code, unlike other licenses that force one to take specific actions based on others morality) and put it out there.
And now he claims that ANYONE doing the same thing is a thief and a plagerizer because he had the idea to rip someone elses idea off first. He's not complaining about people ripping of his app...he's complaining about ripping off his idea of ripping off apps. Its the whole slashdot joke of I Patent The Idea of Pattenting Ideas that got old years ago...
Fuck Arlo and Fuck All Ya'll...
Bud Tribble was usually on an even keel, but one afternoon in the fall of 1981 he came into my office, unusually excited. "You know, I've been thinking about it. Even if we can only run one major application at a time, there's no reason that we can't also have some little miniature applications running in their own windows at the same time."
c in tosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Ma
A couple of weeks ago, the following clause was added to Apple's developer program agreement:
You can view the full agreement by going to connect.apple.com and clicking Join ADC.