Re: [OT] Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> The only dispute I might have with the article is that just because there
> are weaknesses in the distributed, volunteer, open source development model
> that lots of apps can't or won't appear for Linux.

Agreed. I'd missed that conflation the first time I read it. Yeah, Linux
is a wash on the desktop right now because there aren't desktop apps for
it of the same quality as what you can get for Windows, but that doesn't
mean there wouldn't be closed-source apps if Linux was out there a lot.

And yes, the problem with the AdaOS is the lack of apps. The chicken-egg
thing. But if an OS is supposed to provide general services, it would
seem a "killer app" wouldn't need a new OS, yes? Unless no existing OS
was suitable for developing the app, at which point the app and the OS
become one?

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