The Linus view of GNOME 3.2

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sat Dec 3 22:26:51 UTC 2011


On 12/03/2011 02:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> Currently - but that's because low end tablet devices can't run modern PC
> style software. That will change.

Do you really think that an accountant will ever want to fill out a 
spreadsheet on a tablet, even with a keyboard, if a desktop or laptop's 
available?  I know a number of authors[1][2] and I can't imagine even 
one of them willing to work without a proper keyboard.  For that matter, 
I've completed three novels for NaNoWriMo and have three more stuck at 
about 60K words, and I certainly wouldn't have wanted to do that much 
writing with only an on-screen keyboard.

[1]Not writers; people who earn their living from their writing.
[2]Names available on request, as I'm not interested in name dropping 
for its own sake.


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