Re: Advertisement for gnustep

[Helge Hess]

On Sep 10, 2006, at 22:00, Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:
> > Well, for the advertisement. What would you say, _why_ is GNUstep  
> > good for that? :-)
> >
> > Eg Ruby tries to get into that market by allowing the user to  
> > contruct flashy web 2.0 apps in a few minutes (and they do not  
> > seem to succeed). Do we have a similiar unique feature which could  
> > drive enterprise people to try GNUstep?
>
> These people are not exactly waiting for yet another cross-platform  
> framework. IMO the only chance for GNUstep to get some wider  
> adoption is to focus on the desktop paradigm for X11 based Unices.  
> But then again, we had this discussion for a very long time...

Hm, the response is slightly out of context, no? :-) Please don't  
turn it into the discussion "we had a for a very long time", we all  
know that :-) The initial point was an agreement that as a desktop we  
have nothing to advertise successfully _right now_ and the question  
what we _could_ advertise w/o disappointing people.

Nicola correctly said that the best thing about GNUstep is the  
Foundation library. Though I have a few issues (eg bad out-of-the-box  
FHS support) it can certainly be considered finished.
Now the question is whether we can somehow advertise this fact?

As we all inofficially know the few places where GNUstep is in fact  
successful are a few large scale GNUstep based enterprise  
applications. The bad thing is that you are not usually allowed to  
talk about them :-)
Well and the other issue is that most usually exist for legacy  
reasons, not because it would be the environment of choice nowadays.

So the question is whether gstep-base could be interesting for people  
and why. Can we put that into an ad which triggers someone?

Greets,
  Helge
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