[Rule-list] "Advance to the past" and FAQ

[Marco Fioretti]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 21:28:37 at 09:28:37PM -0700, Geoff Burling wrote:
> On the other hand, now that these older architectures have been deprecated,
> could there be a market for inexpensive, special-purpose devices based
> on these technologies? Before all of you laugh off this suggestion,
> remember that the Palm OS handheld devices used a processor from the
> 68xxx family -- an architecture that Apple had abandoned several years
> before.
> 
> Even if there is small chance that some entrepreneur decides to
> embrace this ``advance to the past", RULE will be useful again by keeping
> technological simplicity viable.
>

Geoff,

there is nothing to laugh, I am fully convinced of this too: just look
what I wrote when we started the project in FAQ #3...

I really hope that, even outside the project, and even outside
Linux/Free Software in general, more people start to think in this
way.

Said this, allow me to note that "advance to the past" is one heck of a
cool slogan (technology-wise, of course: I shake thinking to what some
politicians might justify with it...)! Can I tattoo it on the case of
my P133/32 MB RAM laptop?

        Ciao,
                Marco Fioretti