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Re: Longhorn Killer
From: |
Gregory John Casamento |
Subject: |
Re: Longhorn Killer |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:52:51 -0800 (PST) |
--- Rogelio Serrano <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
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> On 2004-03-22 12:04:20 +0800 Gregory John Casamento
> <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 1. 99% of the general public ( including some technical people
> > ) are not
> > willing to learn anything new unless they absolutely must.
> > ...
> > 4. Given a set of technologies, the worst one of the group
> > will almost always
> > prevail since it is understandable to the lowest common
> > denominator of people
> > (see rule #1).
I was applying these to Windows, BTW, not to GNUstep or Linux. :) Just so you
guys know.
> Thats a marketing issue. Most of the users in the US and Europe
> are entrenched in MS. But thats only a small fraction of the
> worlds population. Most of the users in SEA use pirated MS
> software.
>
> Whats lacking in GNUstep to take on Longhorn when it comes put
> in 2006? We have about a year more to do it. Dennis Leeuw and
> Chad Hardin seems to be on the way to doing it.
Linux and a host of other free operating systems have not been able to do this
in a decade and a half.
GJC
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Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.
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