On Monday 11 November 2002 12:21 am, stacy stacy wrote: > i've always thought that the downside to open source OS' is > that things are extended and modified but the guts of the programming > usually remains the same... > > i mean the concept of X has not really had any other competition > has it? > we all no it has limitation in speed etc, but the choices we have > are only modifications of it. you'd think that if there was money to > be made, that this would happen and groups would take the plunge creating > ingenius new systems... but then you see microsoft, and the same old stuff > coming out of it for years. > maybe it's just how things work, but when you look at the freedom > that programmers have, it's almost pure design. > in a free environment you expect them to reach for the sky-
On the other hand, there's stuff like Syllable/atheos, Yamit, Aros, etc, floating around. A lot of it _is_ admittedly alpha and beta stuff, but an equal amount of it _is_ fueled by disgruntlement with the likes of X Window System, Unix/Posix, etc. So while there's always room for improvement, there's always someone wanting to make those improvements - but you may not always hear about them. Wesley Parish <snip> > >-- > > > >|Andrew Tarr | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://arc.stuff.gen.nz > >|GPG Public Key:- http://arc.stuff.gen.nz/andrew.gpg > >|_____ > > > >"There is no excellent beauty that hath not > >some strangeness in the proportions" > >--Francis Bacon > > > >|~~~~~ > > _____________________________________________________________ > <a href="http://www.gamedev.net";>GameDev.net Email Service</a> - "Plenty of > 1's and 0's" > > _____________________________________________________________ > Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No > Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
