[CrackMonkey] Re: [agenda-user] It's arrived!

[Rob Walker]

>>>>> On 06 Jun 2001 08:44:15 +0100, Sean Neakums <sneakums at zork.net> said:

NM> I'm curious about the Qt/Embedded stuff, and would
NM> love to see a reasonable replacement for X (perhaps an xlib
NM> that writes directly to the framebuffer or something, I
NM> dunno).

Sean> ObWhitepaper: didn't this term have some specific meaning?
Sean> These days it just seems to mean "some shit we wrote about some
Sean> new shit we're writing".

It used to mean something which was grounbreaking, useful, and was
only written by people who had names which would be recognised at
first glance as being an author who just _had_ to be read, in a
technical type of way.  

Now that they have become marketing flak, whitepapers are now down
there with mailing list archives for their accuracy.

rob