Message from discussion Future of Risc OS

Subject: Re: Future of Risc OS
From: Simon Smith <simon_smith_n...@zen.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:07:12 GMT
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In message <81d7b8c84e.Ni...@blueyonder.co.uk>
          Nigel Willmott <nwillm...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> The RO situation once again looks bleak. I haven't been around for 
> 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.

Yes, that's just what I said here:

http://www.dunx.org/cgi-bin/forum?forum=game00009&bookmark=20000509:095846&before=3&after=3

(link should all be on one line)

But I said that almost seven years ago in mid-2000, and RISC OS is in no
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.

RISC OS /is/ only - well mostly - a minority or hobbyist OS, but I really
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?

<snip suggestions and wish list>

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