🚀 go-pugleaf

Boy do I have a lot of unwanted crud in my home directory.  I'd just like
to take this opportunity to encourage app writers to keep files out of
there, which makes cleaning up much easier.  I think a better solution
is to put app related files in

~/Library/Appname/crud_files

This way I don't have to look at them unless I want to see them, and I
can easily identify and nuke them.  Thoughts welcomed.


More idle pondering...  Is NeXTstep expensive?  Is it a bargain?  I think
the answer to both may be yes...

When you count licences for Unix, PostScript, Fonts, Renderman, etc etc
it all adds up.  On top of that, have you ever priced similar (if
inferior) tools and libraries on the sun?

Looking Glass is "something like" WorkSpace.  $795
I just got a brochure for a MallocDebug like tool, $3000
The list goes on.  This is expensive stuff!

But you know, I see that Bill Gates expects to sell 1.3 million copies
of Windows 3.1 in the first couple of months of release.  Do you ever
get the feeling that the computer world just waits for Bill to decree
what the next OS will be and then buys several million copies?

I think that's part of it.  The other part is probably that he is quite
shrewd and not very proud.  He's willing to sell an OS that runs on
machines that almost everyone has, and he's willing to sell it cheap.
It seems as long as nobody is willing to play by Bill's rules, Bill will
continue to get 95% of the PC OS market.

So what will the next big OS be?  I dunno, but I've got a pretty good
guess as to the criterion of success.

Hey don't send me mail about this.  I'm less in touch with reality
than most marketing types.  8^)  (ouch oooow!)

-sam


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Opinions are not those of my employer.  They're not even mine.  They're
probably wrong besides.  How did they get in here, anyway?