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- From: dreier@durban.berkeley.edu (Roland Dreier)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
- Date: 14 Dec 92 23:52:42
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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- In-reply-to: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:29:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.042930.23371@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
- [Stuff about free implementations of Dylan deleted...]
-
- I, for one, believe that Dylan is mostly just a tool for Apple to get
- people locked into their universe by promising all sorts of
- performance/abilities/etc. on hardware that has yet to be shown (Newton)
- which has already been majorly backpeddled on because Apple knows they
- can't deliver. Sculley has made all sorts of pronoucements about the
- future of the palmtop/PDA/PIM/whatever and he has neither the hardware
- (though I believe they have cut the specs again to try and get the cost
- down) nor the software (a Dylan based OS, I believe, which certainly is not
- proven) to fulfill those big words so he has stated that the market will
- now arrive (surpise :-) at about the same projected dates for a real,
- cheap, version of Newton (which, of course, gives the OS/Dylan people time
- to gain converts and make the thing actually work efficiently, etc.).
-
- Sounds almost like the strategy that some folks (can't remember the
- name of the organization right now, sorry) used a few years back. I
- seem to remember reading some "Manifesto" or something years ago,
- promising a free Unix clone; but it seems to just have turned out to
- be a scam for getting programmers to donate their code to this
- organization and gulling idealists into proselytizing their silly
- politics.
- --
- Roland Dreier dreier@math.berkeley.edu
-