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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1529)	11/17/2000 8:44:48 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Well, name a company that does have a plan. Oracle, Microsoft, SAP. One could say their plans are obvious. Take over all competition until their natural lack of innovation allows better new competitors to undercut their encroaching sloth. Financial plan is one thing what about product plans? It goes hand in hand. I think the thing is what do they have to do? That much is obvious and they have worked on it for years. Tune their desktop and offer more ease of use and upgradeabliity. Where do they fail? Where Linux and RPM's and X fails. What to do? All I can say, and I have held this out for a while, is rewrite X to conform to today's needs and realities. Is the answer more Wine (women and song)? A much much better KDE and more apps? Or does it lie in a fundamental shift? I know you think the X thing is solved. It isn't. If it is then port a 300,000 line Windows C program to X and I will see you in five years. Linux has these problems: 1. Lack of Drivers for new hardware. MS does not play fair and companies are not smart. 2. Klunky bloated GUI with scratchy controls and program collision. Bad colour mapping and reversed client server concept. Synchronous complex extensibility that does not work well across Lans, WANS or in-host. Ok some programs work but not all and not all well together. 3. Non real time kernel with underlying comm issues. 4. Abysmal documentation for its many complex features. Badly written and cryptic man pages with few to no examples. If Red Hat solved these issues and went deep with institutional customers they would soon go to 500 million a year easily. Sun bought Star Office. Why? Scared. That should tell the investment community something. Anytime SUN buys anything you know that the General Motors of Unix has a nefarious plan. I don't think Bob will go that deep. It would take about 500 programmer years to get Linux to where people in Institutions would gush over it. It has the technology over all the others and the user/programmer base. Really it can't be beat. It's matter of time. I would say we either financially support the open source community substantially better so this stuff gets written or we get some "proprietary" company to write it. A programmer co-op that offered profit sharing to some open source people and some support would do it. If we could harness and pay 1500 programmers we could make Linux sing and dance the cha-cha. It would take about 4.5 million a month. Trouble is deciding what code is worth what. Once everybody is happy with that we could proceed. One idea is to offer "prizes" for achieving tasks and otherwise pay per line of code - so much $ and so much %. Per line is an old standard that used to be one buck a line. Today that would be about 7 dollars a line. Since it is so expensive to support programmers if they could see their way to taking less on the front end and more on the backend... and their faith in Linux were major we could do it for about 1 million a month with 500 programmers. That would achieve great things. Not much money to live on but they would get by and the royalties would be a pension for life. I could easily predict 100 million in sales for some time to come. We could return an average royalty to the programmers at that level of 30,000 per year without one more line of code writ. At today's interest rates that is a fair sinking fund value. EC<:-} netlinux.dynip.com netlinux.dynip.com

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (1529)	11/17/2000 10:16:07 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

I cut some text from a windows in X and walked over to another computer on the network and pasted and nothing happened. What is wrong with my system? Would it help if I switched it on and off fast? I rebooted twice today. Perhaps I should use a smaller boot as the dents in the case are getting rather large. Would policy routing help? Is my hosts file set correctly? Also should the cup holder tray be out or in when I reboot the computer? Here is my hosts file. # hosts 1. me 2. Mavor Moore 3. Martha Stewart 4. Dick Smothers 5. Dick Cavett 6. Johnny Carson 7. Abigail Van Buren 8. Emily Post Any help at all would be appreciated. netlinux.dynip.com