Re: NeXTSTEP Re: SIMSON SAYS: Copyright and wrongs

Simson L. Garfinkel (simsong@vineyard.net)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:17:21 -0500


Dang. At least, that's what Apple is telling people. I called up the folks
at Apple PR and they told me that MacOS X is everything, and X doesn't use
AppKit.

(I still can't get over the way that they told me that all of NeXTSTEP was
being rewritten in Java. Isn't that what Lighthouse tried, and failed, to
do?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Prabhakar <ernest@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Simson L. Garfinkel <simsong@vineyard.net>; FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu
<FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 8:45 PM
Subject: NeXTSTEP Re: SIMSON SAYS: Copyright and wrongs

>Ohmigosh! NeXTSTEP is dead! I've been working eighty hours a week on a
>non-existent project!
>
>Dang.
>
>-- Ernie P.
>
>P.S. Though I do sympathize with you on the Newton thing.
>
>>
>>One of the prime offenders in this world of dead software is Apple, which
>>has mothballed both the Newton and all but given up on the NeXTSTEP
>>operating systems. Ultimately, it would probably be in the best interest
of
>>both Apple's shareholders and society as a whole for companies like Lotus
>>and Improv to release their failed products to the public. There is a
simple
>>reason that they do not: if the public did a better job with the software,
>>then it would prove that these products died because of mismanagement, and
>>not because of the competitive environment.
>
>
>