Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> The NewtonLink project is open source. It means that if you use any of
> this code, you need to provide your own application free. Unless the
> code would be really easy to port, I doubt anybody will ever take on the
> task. Specially since it seems from my observations that NewtonLink uses
> a serial connection only to the Newton. Since there is no longer a
> serial port on all shipping Macs, for close to 2 years now, that would
> mean that the programmer doing the port would have to re-write all the
> connection stuff, all of this for free.
>
> BTW, I did send an email last week to the guy in charge of the source
> repository and I still have to hear back from him! I guess that free
> projects force you to find other lucrative activities to pay the bills,
> so that you have less time supporting those free projects...
Can you say 'dead platform'? How many commercial newton
developers are left, besides the few that are trying to
milk the last few dollars out of their work? Remember Ben
Gottleib of Standalone Software? It seemed like he disappeared
thirty seconds after the newton was discontinued. In my
opinion your point is not well taken at all.
By the way, a fellow named Linus Torvalds writes free software
and has no trouble making quite a nice living. I'm sure the authors
of many other absolutely lovely open source apps are also living
quite well. 'You're the author of the Gimp? Come work for us, name
your price' is a scenario that is played out every day in the Open
Source community.
Regards,
Arno
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