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My biggest regret from all this was that Apple became the sole inheritor of the NeXT workstation vision. I feel more now than ever that an Open Source OpenStep
by peatmoss 6y ago
My biggest regret from all this was that Apple became the sole inheritor of the NeXT workstation vision.
I feel more now than ever that an Open Source OpenStep (OSOS?) could have been an epically productive relationship for the Mac and Linux communities.
- AprilArcus 6y agoGNUstep existes but it never really took off.
- mattl 6y agoGNUstep is Cocoa, not the OS. OPENSTEP the OS (aka NeXTSTEP but with new OpenStep APIs) and OpenStep the thing that became Cocoa are frustratingly named.
- peatmoss 6y agoNextSpace is an attempt to build a full OS around GNUstep: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace The person behind it seems to still be plugging away. I’d love to see some real inertia behind this kind of effort.
- danbolt 6y agoIt's miles away, but I kind of feel like System76's Thelio tries to inch a little in that direction.