NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/23519

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From: [e-mail] (David Willmore)
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what? (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:44:36 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Richard Braun) writes:
>I think this approach is limiting.  It has led to such monumental
>efforts as MIT Project Athena which have produced far fewer spinoffs
>than were originally intended.  (How many people here know that X
>Window is *not* an Athena spinoff?  Or that the Athena environment
>still runs in exactly one place--the MIT campus?)  What ends up
>happening is you have a hacker's system written by hackers for other
>hackers, and since the lusers who rely on primitive software like MS
>Word and Excel don't matter anyway, the system never strives toward a
>goal behind hackerdom.

I have a comment to make concerning your Athena comment.  Excuse me, I
don't mean to be blunt, but you don't have the slightest idea what your
taking about.  There are at least two major universities using an Athena
based system.  I work at one of them--Iowa State University.  The other
one is CMU.  Digital Equiptment Corporation has a major product called
DecAthena.  They have been advertising it in many major publications so
there aren't many reasons you shouldn't be aware of this.

--David Willmore
[e-mail]