| From: | Jesse McClusky |
| Date: | 15 Sep 2000 at 20:03:13 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Where's the user experience? |
> From: "Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez" <jcmarcos@datavoice.es>
>
> That's where I wanted to get! I'm worried about Amiga's part in this trip.
> They are supposed to build the user experience, on top of Tao's foundation,
> taking advantage of being potentially ubiquitous. But I've seen nothing
> about this experience, not a single clue of what would the desktop metaphor
> (if used) will look like, the high level APIs, etc.
There is no metaphor, because the user interface can be anything
someone wants to write. I can guarantee that people will write up
clones for the current versions of the desktop (Workbench, Windows,
Mac, NeXT, that type of thing), but I can also equally guarantee that
people will write up completely new interfaces (a set of 3D rooms that
you walk through, audio-only with speech for input, etc) that aren't
really feasible in current environments. They applications don't have
to care.
> > I wouldn't mind pouring effort into making VP a free, open source
> > based technology that could be used on other systems besides
> > Ami/Tao.
>
> That's interesting, as every source opening. I guess it's completely
> impossible.
Mainly because Tao created VP and owns all related intellectual
property. If Tao ever goes under, that property would be sold to
attempt to pay Tao's creditors.
Jesse
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