From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 01:23:10 MDT
(Holy wars about operating systems are just as uninteresting as debates
about controlling three letter words)
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:56:27AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>
> Amiga OS was noticeably more advanced than your average (some like it in a
> pot, three decades old) old man OS. Frankly, both our software and our
> hardware stinks. It vividly demonstrates that on the short run progress
> can and actually does reverse. We obviously have to wait for the trend to
> pull us out of this swamp.
Which brings us to a more relevant question: what trends do we see that
will pull us up from this swamp? Are there any, or are we just assuming
that techno-santa will find a way?
There seems to be several areas where we ought to improve:
* User interface usability
* Software efficiency
* Software robustness
* Security
* Hardware
* Development freedom
What useful trends do we see here in the fight against locked down buggy
unusable bloatware?
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