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Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3.0
node 3 writes "Following the current trend of posting video from product demos long past, openstep.se has posted a 55MB video from 1992 of Steve Jobs demoing NeXTSTEP 3.0. They already have 4 mirrors hosting the file, but hopefully someone will set up a torrent (I would, but I don't have a place to post it). If you find the demo compelling and want to try out NeXTSTEP for yourself, you can always go here or here to get started."
Plowing for several large companies, I'd always done my work on Windows. Recently however, a top online investment firm asked us to do some work using FreedBSD. The concept of having access to source code was very appealing to us, as we'd be able to modify the kernel to meet our exacting standards which we're unable to do with Microsoft's products.
Although we met several fertilization challenges along the way (specifically, FreedBSD's lack of Token Ring support and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system), all in all the process went smoothly. Everyone was very pleased with FreedBSD, and we were considering using it for a great deal of future internal projects.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a labourer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. It was brought to our attention that FreedBSD is copyrighted under something called the GPL, or the GNU Preventive License. Part of this license states that any changes to the seed are to be made freely available. Unfortunately for us, this meant that the great deal of time and money we spent "touching up" FreedBSD to work for this investment firm would now be available at no cost to our competitors.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our labourers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable.
Although we had planned for no one outside of this company to ever use, let alone see the source code, we were now put in a difficult position. We could either give away our hard work, or come up with another solution. Although it was tought to do, there really was no option: We had to rewrite the code, from scratch, for Windows 2000.
I think the biggest thing keeping FreedBSD from being truly competitive with Microsoft is this GPL. Its mercurial requirements virtually guarentee that no business will ever be able to use it. After my experience with FreedBSD, I won't be recommending it to any of my associates. I may reconsider if FreedBSD switches its license to something a little more fair, such as Microsoft's "Shared Source". Until then its attempts to socialize the software market will insure it remains only a bit player.
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might be nice if you had the correct video, tard.
How annoying is his voice? I had to kill the video after a single minute... it grated... so... much...
Damn. Time to join my wife and her friend in bed.
-"Where are the news? Does it really matter?"
-"To whom?"
-"To some fanatic.
-"Most probably."
HAD
but so the fuck what? This was "news" in 1992, but we're in 2005 now.
"Oh, here's a video of someone giving a product demo 13 years ago. Enjoy!" isn't really "Stuff that matters".
If there is any example of what a joke the open source community is, it's GNUstep.
Instead of coming out with a usable implementation of something like OS X/NeXTSTEP, you clowns work on an fucking Win98 clone "too make Windows users feel comfortable." Idiots. And then if that wasn't bad enough, you let a dimwitted Microsoft fanboy create a competing desktop to split the userbase into to waring and flaming sides. WTG lusers.
You stupid fucks could be cranking out OS X level apps with an open source version of PB/IB with technologies like Bindings and Core Data that OS X has today.
Instead you are stuck with garbage like Mono??? Congrats retards!
So that's the best Apple can do these days? I use windows XP and I can do much better than this, MACOS is really for losers.
Pretty remarkable that 12 or so years later, it's still just coming together, and other OSs are still catching up.
Scalable antialiased graphics exists on all major platforms, richly formatted mail is standard (HTML or Microsoft), network interoperability existed long before NeXT, the dock is a standard misfeature of most desktops, interface builder is clunky compared to modern visual IDEs, and WYSIWYG word processing is standard and was invented long before NeXT even was conceived. So, other systems aren't "catching up", they "caught up" a long time ago.
Apple should dump that pathetic little Mach-0 and use a Linux kernel instead.
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman