From:	Bjorn DOT Simonsen AT student DOT uib DOT no
Message-Id:	<199702041048.LAA16050@taxus.uib.no>
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To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:	Tue, 4 Feb 1997 12:45:00 +0100
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] The Caldera Page
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Yesterday someone posted an amusing story to this list
* If restaurants functioned like shrink-wrapped (Microsoft) software*

Did you read it? Today someone complained that the site where OPEN DOS
supposedly is made available, is in fact CLOSED for anyone trying to
access it with a text mode only browser!Then someone answers: Hey, you
must upgrade you'r soup bowl !

OK, maybe upgrading a soup bowl in the linux environment is not as
expensive as it would be when dining in the MS- or IBM worlds (where I
live) , but still - listen. I access the World Wide Wait  by
e-mail from my home computer. Thus I get the same result as the lynx
user who complained about this. Thus, OpenDos is NOT OpenlyAvailable. 

Next, what ever happened to plain FTP? I connected to ftp.caldera.com -
looking for information about OpenDOS - and the software it self - but
no, nothing there as far as I could  tell. ( I downloaded the README
and msg's I found there, but they all said the same: Welcome, you
are now at ftp. caldera.com, and nothing more  - as if I didn't now)  I
even downloaded their FAQ about them self, but it said nothing about
OpenDos.

I truly believed the new(?) OpenDos community(?) and the well
established linux community would be tuned and considerate towards
text-only users, but it doesn't seem to be so !  It's the same
everywhere, techno freaks rules, the kind who wants to *prove* that
their system can handle 3D-graphics, live movies, virtual sex or
whatever just as good as any MS platform. I mean it, its the same 
all over the place. The other day I tried to access a OS/2 site ( a magazine) , but no -
those guys are totally fixed on proving that OS/2 is a complete
multimedia platform and a superb walking talking coffee machine. 

Sigh!! Frames and live animation, click here to se a picture of my mum,
or click here to read the next sentence. Frames and live animation,
less and less information. Does any one care that the majority of
people accessing the Internet access it by e-mail only?

To me the OpenDos is closed.  

Sorry , I'm so full of answers I forgot the questions I was going to ask. 


Bjorn
(calling from Bergen, Norway) 

Who me? - just a *normal* brain-dead  end-user with ten thumbs and a 
386, curious about this OpenDos thing. 

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