Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

["Clockmeister" <gerryvdb@tnet.com.au>]

Greg Menke <gregm-news@toadmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Clockmeister" <gerryvdb@tnet.com.au> writes:
>
> > Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote in message
> > Pine.LNX.4.44.0303101427080.18863-100000@lab.oregonvos.net">news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0303101427080.18863-100000@lab.oregonvos.net...
> > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Dunkels wrote:
> > > |* Windowing system with themeable GUI toolkit.
> > >
> > > Well, it must be nice to offer Windows enthusiasts an alternative to
> > > their damnably bad OS.\
> >
> > An OS that allows millions of people to get their work done is not bad.
Bad
> > are the (in relative terms) handful of geeks that spew BS about their
own
> > sluggish, bloated and unfriendly OS and the even fewer diehard antique
fans
> > who are in denial.
>
> By that reasoning, McDonalds sells perfectly good food.  Does that
> mean supermarkets are for diehard antique fans?
>
>
> >
> > If it's fun, do it but don't compare your little toy to the millions of
> > seriously powerful PC's out there that get real work done in the real
world.
> > Windows is an OS that despite a few issues satifies the demands of
millions
> > of everyday users worldwide, like it or lump it.
>
> Please spare us.  I often wonder how many of the "seriously powerful
> PC's" end up doing nothing much more than screen saver duty or
> generating the same quality and quantity of correspondence seen in
> 1980's era bbs's running off floppy drives.

Don't be rediculous.

> I think its fair to say Windows has more than a "few" issues.
>

Maybe in your parallel universe but reality hits hard.