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