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    Ubuntu Needs an Official SDK and Development Platform

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Thomas, Jun 8, 2010.

  1. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    Alright guys, so I got to thinking. One thing that makes developers life's easier, and helps attract them are things like Cocoa on OS X and .Net on Windows - full featured development platforms and SDKs. I think any ubuntu developer should have an easy way of submitting an application to the Software Center(with testing and approval of course). So I was browsing the Ubuntu Brainstorm and found this, and wrote up my solution. It's #2(and the only one on there). The post is a bit old but maybe we can draw attention to it! :)
     
    Thomas, Jun 8, 2010
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    Gintoki Notebook Prophet

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    Apple backs Cocoa/Objective C. Microsoft backs .Net/C#. Linux is a wide and varying ecosystem. Canonical may have a lot of money but they're nothing compared to Novell and Red Hat. Not to mention the tons of other distributions who would not adopt it.

    Canonical can adopt an "Official" SDK and development platform for Ubuntu and throw as much money as they want advertising it but it won't get anywhere. They can't make it the standard. They can make changes to Ubuntu, but they can't make changes to how people developer for or use Ubuntu.
     
    Gintoki, Jun 9, 2010
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  3. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    No, BUT, they CAN make it easier to develop on Ubuntu. It's not about advertising, it's about making a better platform for developers. Linux is a wide ecosystem, and that's good, but new developers, existing developers moving to linux from OS X or Windows need a great, officially supported(so it's not absolute crap) IDE.
     
    Thomas, Jun 9, 2010
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    Which in turn would make Ubuntu the de facto Linux platform. Definitely something which would help to further Linux legitimacy. But I wonder what effect this would eventually have on GNU? You know capitalism...
     
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    Thomas McLovin

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    I'm not quite sure what you mean. GNU is a part of Ubuntu.
     
    Thomas, Jun 9, 2010
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    The GNU license terms. Goes against everything capitalism stands for. Capitalism loves the proprietary. Something which may force Ubuntu to turn into something like OS X. Or two versions of Ubuntu. A free, open which is what they have now and a paid for proprietary version which enjoys all sorts of standards and major third party commercial development.
     
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    Thomas McLovin

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    The License doesn't go against capitalism per se, but goes against some conservative ideals(which are in ways morphed, ized versions of Capitalism).
     
    Thomas, Jun 9, 2010
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    Keep it going guys...this is getting good.... :)
     
    theZoid, Jun 13, 2010
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    While Ubuntu adopting an official SDK would make some changes for any real effect to happen then GNU/Linux itself would have to adopt an official SDK and that's not going to happen. I also don't think Canonical wants to off developers by choosing an official language especially after the crap with mono and how all their developers spread a "meme" on Ubuntu Planet and Gnome Planet that everyone should be free to program in whatever language they want.
     
    Gintoki, Jun 14, 2010
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