Re: Three Point Zero - Idea Mockups

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:55 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Of course, trying to rewrite MacOS nearly killed the company several times
> > ... and it was only necessary because MacOS 9 was an unworkable POS. Not
> > something you can say about GNOME (or Windows).
> 
> ... it is probably something you could say about GNOME 1, however. (No
> offence to anyone who worked on it, back in the day, but we win now.)

Nobody should be offended.  Those who worked on it never wrote a DE
before so it's not like we had 20:20 hindsight that we could apply
to do it right the first time.  We're a more wise and conservative
group now for well or for ill. :-)

sri