Sensible suggestions:
- Depends on the team doing open source. A perfect example of
things gone wrong is LibreOffice. It's been taken over by script
kiddies that focus on glitter and break decades old
functionality, rendering the product almost unusable by
keyboarders. If you can manage the product development by
assigning tasks to competent programmers, go for it.
- Definitely a sensible option. I have friends who've used Mac's
for 40 years and have a collection of old boxes to run
applications obsoleted by non-support in later OS &
platforms.
- See Pareto. Nearly 80% of platforms are Windows. Given Apple's
propensity to bust applications with OS releases, 80% of the
work will be spent supporting 15% of the market. Speaking as a
retired software developer and hardware engineer, I'd gladly
contribute to $$ supporting PSUD.
- Ian
On 5/29/2024 00:04, Duncan Munro wrote:
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Hi,
Thanks for picking up on this. The .dmg file uploaded here is
meant for Intel hardware only I'm afraid. Sorry it didn't work for
you, I'll make the files page more descriptive on this.
My current setup is a MacBook Pro using Intel i5 processor, that's
all I have available to me to develop and test the product. It's
not viable for me to go out and get M1/M2/M3 hardware that I would
have to pay for and use infrequently (PSUD is all done for free so
generates only cost - no income). This is going to be a growing
dilemma as the Apple hardware base migrates to newer processors.
I'm having a think about what the options might be around this.
1. Open source PSUD 3 and later versions to allow a wide community
to help with development and code testing
2. Phase out Mac versions of the product and support
3. Start some sort of charging model for the product to enable
more hardware for development
Open to sensible suggestions...
Regards,
Duncan
Ian Eales