It is rather disappointing that github heads down the Mac OS path while they base their company around a concept which is rather strange to most things Apple - openness and sharing. Writing for Mac OS first also makes it harder to port to other platforms as it is a rather idiosyncratic platform.
If they insist on pushing Mac OS AND want to be seen as a good free software citizen they might want to consider putting some effort in the GNUstep project. Once GNUstep is up to par they should be able to build for that on Linux and Windows with minimal porting efforts.
Still, I'm disappointed in the lack of vision many of these so-called 'open source' companies exhibit. Don't they realise that by pushing these closed, proprietary platforms they undermine the very base of their own existence? The software and community which github depends on was not the result of the generous sponsorship from Microsoft and Apple after all...
I'm making an assumption that the majority (if not entirety) of GitHub employees use a Mac, so why wouldn't they make an editor for themselves on a platform that they use? I doubt they're doing it to bolster the OSX ecosystem as much as meet their own needs.
Because the product they provide is tailored to open source/free software. No matter how much you might be enamoured by Apple and its polished products it is hard to get around the fact that these are the opposite of open and free.
Remember what happened when Linus decided he wanted use BitKeeper to maintain Linux? Also remember how that worked out in the end? Free and/or open source software and closed, proprietary companies often make odd bedfellows.
Wtf. Why would one start with the software-patent and lawsuit-based platform?
Does nobody at github have any sense of ethics? Github was built on open source software and Linux. Why not give something back? Why support those who spend national budgets on anti open-source lawsuits?
