[HN Gopher] Geoworks and AOL (2019)
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       Geoworks and AOL (2019)
        
       Author : Torwald
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-05-25 11:00 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
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       | cheaprentalyeti wrote:
       | It's interesting to note that there's a legal morass surrounding
       | Geoworks keeping it from becoming fully open-source or more
       | widespread use. It reminds me of the recent discussions of
       | similar wrangling with the Amiga OS.
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       | It's funny how we're stuck with a MacOS that's becoming more and
       | more iOS like, Windows which is, well, windows, and a linux
       | that's increasingly become a linux layer for SystemD OS but if
       | you want to look at something simpler there's always a legal
       | claim and people who can keep the property in limbo who are going
       | to get one more drop of blood from the turnip...
        
       | rbanffy wrote:
       | I really loved the Motif look and the fluid UI. Didn't like so
       | much the lack of a keyboard layout I could use to write in
       | Portuguese and the not great video drivers (it insisted on
       | keeping me on 800x600 and 16 colors).
       | 
       | An important lesson is to make application development (for dull
       | corporate apps) easy. In Brazil, Windows adoption soared when VB3
       | was introduced, as it displaced Nantucket's Clipper as the
       | desktop app language of choice.
        
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