Foundation controversy.

[duane at pixi.com]

>From: Paul Winkeler <paulw at revco.com>
>
>Previously Armin Retzko <armin at schwarz.kd.fh-hannover.de> wrote
>
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>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.
>I can imagine that this "backward compability" is a pain in the [censored
by
>censor_daemon(TM) 0.4b] for a software developer, but i think the problem
with
>this Foundation stuff has nothing to do with "backward compability".
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>
>I would suggest that in fact the very reason NeXT's environment is as good
as
>it is is due to no small extent to the fact that they are much more willing

>to throw out the bad in favor of progress.

	It is important to note also that it is never a question of backward
compatibility or not, but of how much and for how long - even on the Mac and
DOS/Windows.  Windows 2.x to 3.x broke nearly everything.  I can run nearly
as many 16-bit Windows apps under SoftPC as I can under NT, which is not a
slam of SoftPC.  And right now I am having all sorts of fun figuring out
which apps and tools run properly under Windows '95 and which don't quite
work right or not at all.

	In any case, can fault NeXT for not providing a low cost upgrade to
support FoundationKit apps (although, with 4.0/OpenStep looming, this may
all be moot) but I certainly can't fault app developers for using it, given
the benefits and the fact that most commercial sites (you know, those
*other* people that pay for OmniWeb and OmniPDF :-) ) probably have FKit.

	Duane
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