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Re: Weird Idea: Applying the "JAVA principle"...

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From: skulski
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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