From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QKJyJ-0002lx-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 00:41:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3AD11C00A; Thu, 12 May 2011 00:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7521C00A for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 00:40:03 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiEHAEsry01FpZCQ/2dsb2JhbACXfY1yeIhwwFGGEQSUKIZFhAY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,355,1301889600"; d="scan'208";a="113556037" Received: from 69-165-144-144.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([69.165.144.144]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 11 May 2011 20:40:02 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 11 May 2011 20:40:02 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 20:40:02 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone? Message-ID: <20110512004002.GA27853@waltdnes.org> References: <20110511150602.GA2423@gaurahari> <201105111745.07919.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201105111745.07919.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8fe50bcd5d714b2b45fa7389b6d322e6 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:45:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > KDE devs decided to take the risk and make the jump ahead of the curve. Coca Cola went from Coke Classic to New Coke; at least they had the guts to admit that it was a bad idea, and reverse it. IBM walked away from their market leading AT. Rather than put a 386 cpu on the motherboard, they went with the PS/2 design, which bombed. Micropro *OWNED* word-processing with a DOS-port of their cpm-based Wordstar product. People were begging and pleading with them to patch it to recognize subdirectories. Instead, Micropro dropped Wordstar, and came up with a "user friendly" menu-driven abortion called Wordstar 2000. That was the end. Do you see a pattern here? -- Walter Dnes