Re: [NTLK] A few thoughts on Einstein.

From: Jon Glass (jonglass_at_usa.net)
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 12:53:31 PDT


On Sep 12, 2004, at 9:41 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:

> Folks, Einstein is a project tha belongs to Paul and his partners in
> it.
> There's no voting involved. You want a different project from whatever
> they've decided to you, you're welcome to start your own.
>

That's not what Nicolas just said, and I quote him:

> As far as I'm concerned, the answer could be "I like the Newton the way
> it is, and I won't change hardware in 10 years". If that's so, then we
> will have spent only 4 weeks on this project and basta.
> If you think it's a great opportunity to change the software (having a
> dev environment on the Desktop may not concern most of you here, but
> still), like fixing the dreaded 61 error, or the -4 NIE error, or
> implementing new technologies, etc, then so be it, we will focus on
> speeding the thing up.
> If you think it's a motorway to freedom from Apple's restraints on the
> whole thing and that we should move on to new hardware, then we will
> focus on hardware integration.
>
> Once this is decided, we might or might not request _help_ to actually
> release something, OSS or not, free or not.

So it seems that they are asking for a sense of direction...

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