[Discuss] GnomeOS

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)]

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:22:16 -0400
Charlie Bennett <ccb at acm.org> wrote:
> When I think of the Gnome development team, I think of this bug:
> 
> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4986

Choice quote:
"Changed 4 years ago by hbons 
IM is about sending relatively short messages quickly, Pidgin isn't a
text editor, if you want to edit code use gedit or something. I see no
reason why to have more than 3 lines, there's e-mail for that. I think
the devs share the same opinion, and I don't think this is going to
change."

It reminds me of a conversation early in the film "TRON".

  Dr. Gibbs: User requests are what computers are for!
  Ed Dillinger: Doing our business is what computers are for!

Of course, the difference between ENCOM and Gnome is that ENCOM is a
commercial think tank while Gnome is a User Interface project. Of
course the UI project will be more receptive to user requests and needs
than the evil Mr. Dillinger.

Wait.

Scoff.

-- 
Rich P.