Comment 1895 for bug 1

Hi :)
When this bug was first posted even laptops were quite rare. So the only
form-factor that people were aware of was desktops. It is already
difficult to imagine such a time!

It was after this bug was posted that netbooks came out and they were
swiftly crushed by clever tactics from MS. Do you remember going through
that time? It was unthinkable that normal users might have access to
anything non-MS. That is what this bug-report is about.

If the original poster could go back in time then i am certain there would
have been at least 3 bug-reports in order to still apply today. Almost
everyone who posted to this thread was basing their responses on the solid
fact that desktop machines were the only form-factor available to normal
users.

This bug-report was about reaching normal users.

As such it HAS been solved.

Now the whole landscape has changed radically. There are new words to
cover technology that hadn't been anticipated outside of Sci-fi. Many of
the responses are laughably wrong these days but were quite wise at the
time.

We have an opportunity to recognise that things were different back in the
old days and an opportunity to cut away legacy stuff that is no longer
useful.

Continuing with this thread would be much like keeping a bug-report open
about support for Betamax systems or even VHS ones. While technically not
solved it has become largely irrelevant because it fails to account for the
new landscape. Of course 1 slight difference is that people still have
movies that were recorded onto Betamx or VHS ;)

Regards from
Tom :)