From: Dave Winer (dave@userland.com)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 12:20:52 PDT
OK, I'll buy you a Windows box.
If you want to work on porting it to Linux, that would be cool too.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Strata Rose Chalup" <strata@virtual.net>
To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: The P in P2P
>
> I'll answer that one-- it would be great if it were open source enough
> that the folks for whom Unix usage (Linux, BSD, whatever) IS a priority
> could go out and try to do some porting in parallel.
>
> I keep hearing about how great this stuff is, but y'know, I can't run
> it. It's like those postcards you get from slackers on vacation saying
> "man, you won't believe this, it's so awesome here! whoops, gotta go, I
> met these college volleyball chicks and they just showed up with a
> bottle of tequila and the key to the hot-tub! see you back at the
> office!"
>
> C'mon, Dave, I'd *love* to play with Radio UserLand. I bet it *is*
> great fun. But unless somebody buys me a Windows box or a Mac, I can't
> play.
>
> OK, I could back up my Linux box, repartition it, make it dual-boot to
> some flavor of Windows (if my components are supported), and then boot
> to Windows anytime I wanted to play with Radio UserLand. But then I
> can't get work done at the same time, so that's not really a solution.
>
> Too bad I can't work on a port!
>
> Cheers,
> _Strata
>
> Dave Winer wrote:
> >
> > How open source does it have to be? And why?
> >
> > We have the software you describe, it's called Radio UserLand. It's far
more
> > than you're expecting, actually. Mac and Windows. Easy to use. High
powered.
> > Highly programmable. Lots of source, but not open source.
> >
> > I'm working on the marketing site this week.
> >
> > It's a lot of fun!
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "S. Mike Dierken" <mike@KnowNow.com>
> > To: "DaveNet email" <dave@scripting.com>; <FoRK@xent.ICS.UCI.EDU>;
> > <michelle@opensales.com>; <chris@lynch.com>; "Kate Adams"
> > <brdbrain@best.com>; "Avron Barr" <avron@aldo.com>; "Matt Ocko"
> > <matt@archcap.com>; "Peter Burrows -- Business Week" <pburrows@aol.com>;
> > <wsk@greylock.com>; "Kevin Fong -- Mayfield Fund" <kfong@mayfield.com>;
> > "Sheldon Laube" <slaube@centerbeam.com>; "Dave Carlick"
<carlick@vpvp.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:36 AM
> > Subject: RE: The P in P2P
> >
> > > > Networking is going to get easy. Napster already showed us how.
> > > > Don't just put a client on the desktop, put a server there too.
> > >
> > > If only we had some sort of OpenSource project with a cross platform,
> > > standards compliant, install in 5 minutes, extensible kind of server.
> > Dang,
> > > that would be popular! Wouldn't it?
> > > Or maybe some techno-company will go to the extreme of usability and
> > embrace
> > > and extend a common GUI operating system to let you right click a
folder
> > and
> > > say 'share this folder'. Dang, that would be easy to use! Wouldn't it?
> > >
> > > MikeD
> > >
>
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