[arachne] Re: Lack of interest of the DOS community in Arachne (was Re: Slow scrolling of large screens)

["patrice.lemonnier" <arc.f.ruc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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I would like to say that so many people come back to the Dos;
They begin to understand that it's (I realy think so) 
one of the better OS


I am Chartered Accountant, legal auditor, teatcher of university and I 
work only with Dos soft
arachne
Word (6 dos)
Works (Dos)
Milec (dos) so many soft
Pkzip PKUNZIP
F-prot
AVPDOS 32
And so many
because I like it .

One book has been written in French "L'imposture informatique de LUCATO"
The autor explains that if you want to be competitive you must use DOS
With windows you can't be competitive 
In FRANCE we have very high level taxs and high costs. 
A company can be
competitive if it uses soft runing in dos.
I use arachne because It's working fine.
And so many people can coming back to Dos.
Look "www.milec.com".
This editor works only with soft runing of course with dos but also with
windows. 
Many many thanks to all the arachne community
I have never problems to receive important mail with arachne It was not the same
thing with outlook 
Sincerely

Patrice LEMONNIER 












On Sat, 10 Jun 200

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>> No, I'm being realistic, not sarcastic. There seems to be almost
>> no interest in the open source community for working on Arachne.
>> There are a handful of people working on Arachne at most. Hardly
>> anyone feels a compelling interest in a DOS browser. Sure, lots
>> of people could work on it, but hardly anyone does.

>> Where's the interest? No one is rushing to work on Arachne at all.
>> One would think there would interest in the DOS community as what
>> good is an OS these days without a first class browser? I don't
>> understand why there is so little interest in Arachne, but there
>> isn't.

> I guess that would require people to use DOS as their main OS, which is
> currently not the case, I suspect. I have noticed that most DOS
> developers seem to program *for* DOS, but not *in* DOS; they prefer to
> develop their DOS software in Windows or Linux instead, so it is safe to
> assume that they also use Windows or Linux for surfing the 'net. Also, I
> bet that there are many people who are interested in *using* a DOS
> browser, but who simply do not know how to program.

> If we could answer the reverse question, "Why are people interested in
> writing a web browser for other OSes?", then we would probably have the
> answer to this one, too.

>> Michael Polak, the original author of Arachne, came to believe
>> that his original conception for Arachne was deeply flawed and
>> that Arachne needed to be rewritten from the ground up. He had
>> many ideas for improvement and he was doing preliminary work on
>> what he called "Arachne 2.00" when the press of having to earn
>> a living directed his attention elsewhere. If there had been
>> any hope of making a buck with Arachne he might have continued.

> He was probably right, Arachne *is* flawed. The basic problem with
> Arachne is that it has been designed for "poor people with an Internet
> account", a target group which has never existed, and that it requires
> too much system resources for an old machine and cannot use enough on a
> modern one.

>> Linus Torvalds has been paid a salary by Paul Allen for years. Many
>> open source programmers are employed by IBM. Sun, and other companies
>> large and small that have a business interest in maintaining
>> alternatives to Microsoft. Many do work without compensation and
>> for various reasons, but to say that "nobody is a millionaire or
>> has been hired by one" is just not accurate.

> Aha. Well, some time ago, I read an article on ZDnet about Open Source
> software that stated that the Open Source concept works because the
> programmers do not have to make a living by selling their software,
> allowing them to work on "unprofitable" tasks. The author also wondered
> why aside from Linux, most Open Source projects move ahead only at
> crawling speed. I guess that is because for most of these developers,
> time is the limiting factor, not money; only professional programmers
> can afford to work on their project all the time.

> But I do not think that this is a problem with Arachne; I do not think
> that Glenn would work harder if someone would pay him for working on
> Arachne unless he would make it a full-time job.

> Regards,

> Udo

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