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>Consumers get a product and they still have to go on Mac to use it. There will be ports to windows and linux in under a month.
by arvindamirtaa 6y ago
>Consumers get a product and they still have to go on Mac to use it.
There will be ports to windows and linux in under a month.
- mhh__ 6y agoHow? I assume it's mostly using proprietary MacOS APIs, and, ignoring that it doesn't really matter beyond apple being an abusive partner, lawyers are a powerful tool (This software is under the Apple don't take the piss licence)
- arvindamirtaa 6y agoAssuming the License is that restrictive, only those who are financially invested in Preview working well (and only on macOS) will have any incentive to contribute code. I can't think of any company other than Apple that fit this description.
- mhh__ 6y agoApple fanboys, and also having the code be public puts pressure on you for it to be good.
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- yakubin 6y agoThere already is an equivalent feature in GNOME. Preview's code is of little value outside of Mac. It's also not rocket science, that the thing stopping other people from doing the same thing would be lack of access to original source code. :)
- djxfade 6y agoI wouldn't be to sure, Apple's applications usually rely heavily on proprietary Cocoa APIs not available anywhere else