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Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by rsynnott on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @07:02AM (#6205019)
> But, as we said prior, the people that care just use OS X. Their target platform is OS X. The Linux users are happy with WINE and GTK+. There's nowhere for the project to go, and I fear that this Kickstarter will be a failed effort.

A modernised GNUStep could allow easy ports of a lot of MacOS software, both open and closed-source. That in itself might be enough to kickstart a non-MacOS ObjC/Cocoa ecosystem.

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Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by stuaxo on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:33AM (#6205937)
+1 for this... Xamarin seems to make most of their money going the other way with monotouch, this is a proven way to revenue.

I guess ideally this would need a company that is the equivilent of Xamarin to drive this and objective C forward onto the other platforms.

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Re:Kickstart the GNUstep Project by rsynnott on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @10:07PM (#6209593)
I don't really see why; GNUStep is already an established FSF project, and I see no need for a company. What it needs is a bit of attention, which is what this kickstarter will hopefully achieve.
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