[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Review of the CODE conference (Cambridge/UK, April5-6, 2001)

[Martin Pichlmair <e9626313@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

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
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