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To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (72255)	6/23/2001 2:22:20 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116796

You go where the money wants to go. I am not a one dimensional individual. I am sure you have a wife but like to play cards with the boys too. The two are not completely mutually exclusive. Geophysics in mining is dependent on computers. When I took geology every one of my weekly labs I did with a PC a fortran program. Sure I would like to rewrite X and network PC's directly with call on demand VPN's. And go further than that. How about broadband wearable multi media computers with voice/video over IP that connect direct? But it all takes development and money and time. It is practically off the shelf as far as the tech goes. I would stress that these PC's must be Linux. Windows is not capable to doing the networking securely or handling the brain surgery to fit them into embedded stuff as in the company that we could have financed lineo.com. But you have to get to stage 2 to get the capital. This is a tough boorstrap. And you have to avoid the visio problem. Visio was no brainer technology. Anybody could have done that. All it took was writing. One thing that has to improve is the hardware. PC's are too bulky, noisy, and the monitors are too expensive and bulky. Not to mention they flicker and this cause stress on the CNS that drains the brain. The solution to this is worth a few billion. Even a better graphical system for Linux that allowed cheap porting of windows programs to Linux would be worth perhaps 1 billion in sales. (Applix and Star Office are not end to end network solutions with full ease of printing, database and graphics capabilities output wise or input wise. Also good uptodate windows office file conversion is needed.) Hardly worth spending a cent on. But you have to go out and market it. The potential market is there. The programmers are there. The hardware is there. It is a no brainer. It has even been "half" tried (eazel, ggi) and one time, except for a brain dead technology company maven, it succeeded. NDA needed. Although Corel and WP for Linux seem to deny it, it is my belief that a better office environment for Linux would be worth at least 9 figures. Larry Augustin (VA Linux) seems to agree with me on that. Right now I figure people will buy gold. I believe there is nothing wrong with selling projects that people will buy. EC<:-}