From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Sun Feb 8 18:46:45 2009 Subject: [gopher] Re: progress on the Overbite AIR client Hi Cameron, On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 07:53 -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > The advantage of writing this in AIR is that it will run on Windows, Mac OS > X and Linux as is (there is some platform dependent code in it, but otherwise > it is essentially the same program). Plus, AIR is an Adobe product, so it has > the stability of a large, well-known company maintaining it. Judging from how unstable and even insecure Adobe's Flash can be on my Linux box[1] I wouldn't give much about the creditability of a well-known company. Far from it. Whenever possible I don't want to run proprietary software with only the binaries released on my system at all. IMHO it'd be better to rely on open-sourced, proven and truly platform independent technologies like Python, Ruby, Java, you name it. Just my two cents, though. Let me know if I can help with German translations. :=) Yours sincerely, Dennis Schulmeister [1] Flash is the only application which manages to freeze my whole computer from time to time. A company like Adobe might be large but it will never beat a vivid community at spotting and fixing bugs. -- Dennis Schulmeister - Schifferstr. 1 - 76189 Karlsruhe - Germany Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 - eMail: dennis@windows3.de Now moved to the corridor: Hermes! (http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net) Besides that: http://www.denchris.de - http://www.motagator.net/bands/65 <GnuPG KeyIDs: B8382C97, 01AD62DE> Thread start (DIR) [gopher] progress on the Overbite AIR client Thread start (DIR) [gopher] progress on the Overbite AIR client (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: progress on the Overbite AIR client (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: progress on the Overbite AIR client