Re: Some thoughts about GS

[Christian Edward Gruber]

I've seen the source.  It would be an easier port than gimp with a Cocoa
front-end.

Anyway, Sun Microsystems (JavaSoft Applications Group, formerly Lighthouse)
owns the source.  There's probably not a snowball's chance in hell of
getting the source out of them now.  They did a credible alpha-quality port
to Java, which was then buried when Sun bought StarOffice.  Of course, then
sun OpenSourced "OpenOffice" so now there are two entire codebases of a
pretty damn cool project sitting on ice there. <sigh>  Good news is that in
45 years, the copyright will expire. ;)

regards,
Christian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Casamento" <borgheron@yahoo.com>
To: "Christian Edward Gruber" <christian.edward.gruber@gmx.net>; "Frederic"
<frederic.chauvin@noos.fr>; "Philippe C.D. Robert" <phr@projectcenter.ch>
Cc: "GNUstep discuss" <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: Some thoughts about GS


> --- Christian Edward Gruber <christian.edward.gruber@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Frederic <frederic.chauvin@noos.fr> wrote:
> > > 4. A Killer application (to make GNUstep unavoidable): I don't know
> > > which one right now.
> >
> > Quantrix.
>
> That would be nice.   It's a great spreadsheet application.   If only we
could
> get the source for it.  :(  Besides, I believe that it is a NeXTSTEP API
> application, not OPENSTEP, which would make porting a little more
difficult.
>
> > regards,
> > Christian.
> >
> >
> >
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