From: Clayton Weimer [clayton@wanderbook.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:31 AM
To: Tim Titus
Subject: RE: round table meeting, 5/15/2003, 3:30 pm
I had lunch with Bill yesterday, he showed me POW (aka Penpoint on Windows).
 
What he did was very impressive, really cool, and I wouldn't mind a copy to play with on the compaq and to share ideas with him.
 
I don't see any marketability in it though.  Other than faster switching in between (desktop and Notebook) there's not much feature difference than what was done in '97 and still has the same drawbacks as a product (i.e. it is a dead platform).
 
Still it would be fun (from a nerd point of view) to play with, and I guess the free time Bill put in it proves all this would have been done a long time ago (along with ports to linux, winCE, and other OSs) if we made it open sourced.  A lot of nerds with free time keeps Linux and Mozzilla alive.
 
I know it sounds contradictory, that a developer (namely me) sees no marketability in it, yet wants to work with it, and sees Windows TPC as the market, yet has low interest in working with it.
 
Sigh,
hoep alls well with you.
 
 
Clay