Foundation controversy.

[Chris Huston]

>  Don't get me wrong, i don't want to complain or put the
>  blame on OmniGroup, but i believe one reason that Windows
>  and MacOS based Software companies could grow big in the
>  biz and stay there for such a long time is that they
>  (well most of them) cared about backward compability.

Most major Mac and Windows come out with a new upgrade every 6  
months. Before our office went to NEXTSTEP, we used Mac systems.  
It's been 3 years since we upgraded anything on the few Macs that  
are still lurking under a layer of dust. Data files from newer  
versions of the applications are not readable by older versions of  
the applications. New versions of the applications require an  
upgrade to the a newer version of System 7...

OpenStep compliance brings NEXTSTEP a new opportunity for survival.  
I'd rather be forced to upgrade my OS than to be faced with an  
unsupported OS.

Edu prices are incredibly reasonable. Upgrades can be pricey but  
they only come once every year or two - where windows and mac  
upgrades seem to be a regular monthly occurrence (between the apps  
and the os.)

>  Diagram and other Lighthouse Apps use the Foundation
>  Classes.  But that was even before NS 3.2 was in the
>  press.  Why did those apps run on NS 3.0 or 3.1?

Foundation Classes from Lighthouse are not the same as NeXT's  
FoundationKit.

- Chris