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Article #1184Re: Weird Idea: Applying the "JAVA principle"...
From: skulski
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:26
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 22:26
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In article <4j0vqu$2m9@neptune.ethz.ch>, rvoegeli@inf.ethz.ch (Roland Andre Voegeli) writes: > Peter Froehlich (p.froehlich@amc.cube.net) wrote: > > : As the subject says, this is a weird idea (and I know that, don't point > : it out to me) just good for producing the "marketing hype" that Oberon > : currently lacks. > > I think, a big problem of today's software is that many ugly things are > introduced for the sake of "marketing hypes". Let's not do the same thing > with Oberon. Do not you think that to some extent System-3 + Gadgets tried to follow the "marketing hype" of overlapped windows, as the original System interface was considered too awkward? What happened then? Did it get any appreciable market share among "end users" who were supposedly the target? IMHO Oberon needs marketing, not marketing hype. These can be two different things. Just my 0.02, Wojtek
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.oberon Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu!skulski From: skulski@fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu Subject: Re: Weird Idea: Applying the "JAVA principle"... Message-ID: <1996Mar23.172644.1@fermi.nsrl.rochester.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: nsrlc6.nsrl.rochester.edu Organization: Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory References: <224676F7H000D1F62H@p.froehlich.amc.cube.net> <4j0vqu$2m9@neptune.ethz.ch> Date: 23 Mar 96 17:26:44 -0500