Re: [brittanymosher@home.com: X]
this guy is a complete phony. don't do business with him if at all possible.
last time i checked, his viewtouch software crashed without so much as an
error code on debian. he claimed it only ran on mandrake, and was hostile
over the phone to the idea of running on anything but mandrake. also note
that none of the pictures on his website are of actual products that he
sells, but of vaporware gleamed from other websites. gene mosher is the last
person i would ever want to do business with.
from the secret journal of Branden Robinson (branden@deadbeast.net):
> I'm not even sure what this person wants. His (see message body) message
> was not appropriate for my private mailbox and not for debian-x either.
>
> Maybe he wants a consultant? If so, maybe one of the readers of this list
> can help him.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Brittany Mosher <brittanymosher@home.com> -----
>
> From: Brittany Mosher <brittanymosher@home.com>
> To: branden@debian.org
> Subject: X
> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:31:03 -0700
> Delivered-To: branden@localhost.deadbeast.net
> Delivered-To: branden@deadbeast.net
> Message-ID: <39F9BBD7.524099C5@home.com>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win98; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en
>
> I'm looking into building a state of the art X terminal. I need X
> terminals, but I just can't find any an am willing to build one. I have
> pretty good design and manufacturing contacts in Singapore and Malaysia,
> and application software which requires nothing more than X terminals
> which can boot up to client applications which sit on the net's fibre.
> What I don't have is a network of people who know the X software side of
> X terminals. Historically, we have used the NCD Explora terminals
> (which feature lots of BSD software), but NCD has no interest in
> updating their 1995-era products or lowing their prices. I'm
> particularly interested in a SOC, system on chip, hardware solution.
> The application software is commercial, but I'm interested in making at
> least parts of it free. It runs on AIX, BSD, SCO & Linux. It is based
> on X, includes turnkey vertical market apps, a touchscreen GUI, a rapid
> development framework and is strictly built on the X Windows model where
> every user simply needs an X terminal, and not on the `Every user needs
> a Linux computer' model.
>
> My current frustrations are with the fact that, in spite of what is
> going on at handhelds.org, Microsoft has successfully strong-armed all
> of the companies which are building X terminals out of the X terminal
> business in order to be given the right to build Windows thin clients.
> I know LOTS of people who would buy a modern day X terminal if it were
> simply available. This is what I intend to do. Our client application
> hardware is set up using Debian, btw.
>
> Gene Mosher
> 541 344 7990
> reply to gene@viewtouch.com
>
> If you want me to call you, just provide a phone number. Our website is
> viewtouch.com
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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> Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover.
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