Re: OpenStep anniversary

[Dennis Leeuw]

Nicolas Roard wrote:
> On 2004-10-18 15:36:52 +0100 address@hidden wrote:
>
>
> > Citát Nicolas Roard <address@hidden>:
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of the OpenStep specification release.
> > > I think that it could be interesting to prepare stories for news sites 
> > > about it (and about GNUstep, of course :-)
> > > Ideas ?
> >
> > In addition to an article, we can declare and release GNUstep 1.0 as an open
> > successor to the OpenStep - multiplatform API.
> >
> > What do you say?
>
>
> Well, I think it would be nice, but I'm not sure we can bump up the number like 
> that.. ?
>
> Regarding the article, I think we need:
> - a part about OpenStep, history, etc.
> - GNUstep's history (with emphasis on the recent progresses, obviously..)
> - Presentation of GNUstep possibilities
>
> While keeping things not too long. We can perhaps have a medium-length article 
> hosted on gnustep.org,
> and a short sumary to submit to websites ?
> Sadly I doubt I'll have the time this evening to do much, but it could be good 
> to reuse the marketing documents
> and some articles.
> Here is the booklet and the brochure (marketing): 
> http://www.roard.com/gnustep/GNUstep-brochure.pdf
> http://www.roard.com/gnustep/Booklet.pdf
> And here is an article I wrote with fabien that presents GNUstep and that has a 
> bit of history in it:
> http://www.roard.com/docs/lmf1.article/

Just a quick starter, I don't have much time, so...

10 the magic number
===================
Today the OpenStep API celebrates it's 10th anniversary. What started 
out as a joint adventure of NeXT and SUN to define an application 
development standard that would run on all machines, making a write once 
compile everywhere paradigma a reality, is still a vivid and active 
community of GNUstep, old NeXT and Apple lovers.

The magic 10 appears in Apple's OS X and in GNUsteps current 1.10.x 
release numbers. Currently people are able to develop their programs on 
Mac OS, Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, and with a couple of hurdles even on 
Windows. Slowly but steadily a solid and well defined standard is 
reaching out to the world of software development.

Program your applications in a couple of hours instead of days, weeks or 
never. Use the advanced API of a development framework that didn't need 
any modification for 10 years, because it rocks, is stable and just works.

You want to know more? Visit the links below:
GNUstep:
http://www.gnustep.org/
http://www.roard.com/gnustep/GNUstep-brochure.pdf
http://www.roard.com/gnustep/Booklet.pdf
http://www.roard.com/docs/lmf1.article/

OpenStep:
http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/objc/

Apple:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/

Dennis

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