Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

[Greg Menke <gregm-news@toadmail.com>]

"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.

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

Gregm