From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8CC138F88 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C159FE0B53; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:08:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2A94E0B20 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:08:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.190.2.204] (85-76-174-73-nat.elisa-mobile.fi [85.76.174.73]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 81FDF33FAD0 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53104362.9090200@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:05:54 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie References: <52FF84CE.2050301@libertytrek.org> <5301B3E1.3000007@yandex.ru> <201402231335.31992.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <530A7700.4030809@gmail.com> <20140226202917.GA32175@waltdnes.org> <6ADAFF4B-A580-45C1-9FF9-31FF485BE89E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6ADAFF4B-A580-45C1-9FF9-31FF485BE89E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: dff0d4e2-b595-4041-a4b1-9ee87ae01c1b X-Archives-Hash: af99a484807ee789e76ebe75130df60a On 28/02/14 08:47, Stroller wrote: > On Wed, 26 February 2014, at 8:29 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: >> … >> * Netscape (under AOL) aimed at becoming a pseudo-OS on top of Windows. >> We know how that turned out. > You appear to be underestimating it - whilst the AOL suite was hated by many of those "forced to use it" (I guess in the late 90's or early 00's), it is / was so massively popular with grannies that it is still available today. > > Dial-up division is still AOL's most profitable division, earning them $500m per year,[1] and I would attribute the popularity of the AOL desktop suite to this. > > I've seen this profitability attributed to "misinformed customers" who "don't know they no-longer need AOL now they have DSL", but having been told by a number of people that all they want out of their computer is their AOL, I find it had to agree with that characterisation. > > AOL's desktop suite has certainly not been a failure for the company. > > Stroller. > > > > > [1] http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/02/18/aol-dial-up-profits/ > > This must be a US -only thing since I've never even heard of AOL desktop/suite before, even while lived through the 90's and the bulletin board times (as being a SysOp myself ;-)