FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: The state of the world (or, WTF is Glass Elevator and who am I?)

["Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>Parallel development is always a good thing, right=3F :) And how 
> > > funny 
> >>would it be if we released R2 before R1=3F
> >
> >Professionally, it'd look like we're dumb, though the humor value 
> > would
> >definitely be high :)
> >
> >I didn't realize this was the way things were going to be.  
> > Interesting.
> 
> This sounds like something different than what it really is, maybe.
> Nathan is really working on design and prototyping for R2. 
> Gathering ideas from people, distilling them into a coherent list.
> Sketching out APIs that people would like to see, etc.
> It is certainly not a parallel effort to build a second OBOS. That 
> would
> be just silly. There are certain APIs that many people don't like. 
> This is a chance to 
> talk about them and try to improve them. The CVS is, in a way, a 
> proof of concept 
> type of thing.

Apologies for not being clear. However, I *am* coding things, whether 
for proof of concept or not. This is not merely discussion (although 
that is an important part of the endeavor).
-Nathan

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Fortune Cookie Says:

"A witty saying proves nothing."
                -- Voltaire