Martin Pichlmair on Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:47:10 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Review of the CODE conference (Cambridge/UK, April5-6, 2001) |
dear florian, i agree to your mail in general. yet i would like to comment the last paragraph ... > ...and another problem is that GNU/Linux and other Free Software > operating systems (like Free/Net/OpenBSD) don't provide standardized > high-level APIs for the kind of applications you develop. (I.e. no > unified screen/printer imaging layers, different incompatible audio APIs > all without built-in codecs, no standard GUI, no standard component > model.) Both Macintosh and Windows are much better suited as target > platforms for your projects. yes :: gnu operating systems do not provide standardized high level apis - yet! there are currently lots of projects aiming in that direction - video4linux, dri [ direct rendering interface ], openInventor, .... and do not miss, that there are [ yet only few ] successfull ports of standard authoring tools :: the MAX-clone pl/gem, e.g. i hope, that this situation will change in the near future [ but i share many of your concerns about this ] .. g-martin : martin pi contact : e9626313@student.tuwien.ac.at : 0699 10443742 johann strauss gasse 32 / 7 : 1040 vienna : http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9626313 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold