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In message <81d7b8c84e.Ni...@blueyonder.co.uk> > The RO situation once again looks bleak. I haven't been around for http://www.dunx.org/cgi-bin/forum?forum=game00009&bookmark=20000509:0... (link should all be on one line) But I said that almost seven years ago in mid-2000, and RISC OS is in no RISC OS /is/ only - well mostly - a minority or hobbyist OS, but I really <snip suggestions and wish list> -- When emailing me, please use my preferred email address, which is on my web
Nigel Willmott <nwillm...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, that's just what I said here:
> most of the last 10 days, but on re-entering the RO universe, I find
> that one of its last real-world users is jumping ship and its only
> serious developer of major new applications is taking time out.
more or less trouble now than it was then. As I recall the Phoebe crisis
was back then, and then there was Acorn disappearing entirely, and so
on . . . I suspect you (and I, and others) may be worrying needlessly. An OS
that is still 'dying' seven years after I (and many others) said it was
dying can't really be as sick as all that. Were I to make another similar
post today, I'd give it another five years just as I did in 2000. and once
again I'd be absolutely delighted to come back and have to eat my words
sometime around 2015.
don't think any the less of it for that. I say, keep your expectations
realistic, contribute where you can, and enjoy using the OS as long as it's
available. That's all I'm doing. And given that I don't make unreasonable
demands of it, its reliability, consistency, ease of use etc. have repaid me
manyfold. What more can one ask?
Simon Smith
site at http://www.simon-smith.org