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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Newsreaders
Date: 1 Apr 2015 17:51:15 GMT
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On 2015-04-01, Doc O'Leary <droleary@2usenet2014.subsume.com> wrote:
> For your reference, records indicate that 
> Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>
>> Linux will never be a widespread user-side OS.  It's just too hard to 
>> use. 99% of the compuer using public wants an appliance that they can 
>> turn on, use, and turn off once they're done.
>
> If the Mac could do it (well, really, it was NeXT that mainly did it),
> so could Linux.

Uh huh. Then why hasn't Linux done it? It's only been, what, 15 years so far.

>> One of the biggest holdups for Linux is that many of not most 
>> distributions are obsessed with licensing issues (GPL 2 vs 3, etc.) and 
>> they will use crappy-but-free-as-in-speech applications preferentially 
>> to applications that actually work but have more restrictive licensing.
>
> Plus the insular developer mindset.  For example, GNUstep use should have
> taken off when iOS turned out to be a hit, but they seem to have absolutely
> no desire to work with anyone who wants to port to/from Apple platforms.

Cry me a river.

> Steering this back to newsreaders, it’s why all these different command
> line readers you’re stuck with can’t *bear* to either develop or use
> a common NNTP library to do the meat of what they do.  Usenet might not
> be in such a sad state if there hadn’t been so much wasted effort.

And those of us using command-line news clients aren't bitching about it
nearly as much as you. Go figure.

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JR