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Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:13:04 PST
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Project ?

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On Wed, 26 January 2000, "Steven Levine" wrote:

>
> In <20000125172430.5940.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net>, on 01/25/00
> at 09:24 AM, said:
>
> >The changes I would make probably don't warrant
> >a group project, more like one person hacking/
> >kludging on a Sat.
>
> Any maybe Sunday, too.

As a friend of mine has pointed out, in that mode of
operation stuff as arbitrary as the rotation of a
planet on it's axis fades into the background. :-)

>
>
> >> use Warp for the WPS as much as anything else.
>
> >My interests aren't so narrowly focused when
> >it comes to Warp, but that is a good reason. :-)
>
> It is somewhat interesting that, so far, we haven't found a potential app
> that more than one person has any interest in working on. Or did I
> miscount somewhere?

FTP, e-commerce, maybe.
These would have the advantage of helping
the OS/2 community maintain connectivity.
(personnally, I don't have any experience
with graphic or multi-threaded applications,
so I'd have to be in partial learning mode on
anything too heavy on this stuff.)

Winmodems starting to dominate the market
provides an externality effect for M$
by making it harder for non-Windows users to
keep in touch, they become isolated, and no
longer being in touch they become discouraged.
(There's another idea - Winmmodem drivers?)

A few years back, USA Today had an interview
with Jim Brain on what people using 'obsolete'
computer hardware should do to keep it usefull.
He emphasised the importance of getting on line,
networked with other users so that they would
be aware of the resources that were available,
who could help them with problems, etc.
The situation for users of a minority OS
seems similar to me.

>
> Steven
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> "Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.06 #10183 Warp4/FP11
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / dallasii@kincyb.com /
leganii@surfree.com

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