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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit
To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:59:42 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mhaque@haque.net (Mohammad A. Haque), ben@kalifornia.com (Ben Ford),
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> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
> UNIX.

Oh they are definitely unix people, but ORBit is about solving a very 
different sort of problem to scribbling bits on a disk, or it was until very
crazy people got involved
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