From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 28 3:16:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DC4837B408 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p187.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.187]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA37732; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 12:16:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00549; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:53:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:53:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Johnson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Innovation and Promotion In-Reply-To: <004d01c12fa3$c60251a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What you really mean is "promoting their technology to the simplistic customer > that just wants to to surf the web and read their email, want > a desktop that isn't ugly, and want their games to run smoothly and > quickly." Yes, that's true. There's a very big question of applicability > here, though. But is this vision really realistic ? Computers *are* complicated. No OS can change that. The other way would be the end of the universal computer, like Organisers or handies. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message