While there are some in the /. community who are well-informed about it,
a seemingly larger number seem intent on criticizing my characterization
of the possible relationship of Squeak and Linux. On the show, I talked
about the potential power of emedding Squeak into Linux as one way this
might work. The rabid /. folks jumped on that to point out that I was
obviously ignorant about Squeak since I didn't even know there was a
Linux port.

Sigh.

Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> 
> Dan,
> does the Squeak team mind the attention or may I post some more attractive info in
> reply?
> 
> Ryan Davis wrote:
> 
> > http://www.slashdot.org/ just had a mention of us (about a mention of us).
> > Check it out:
> >
> >     Jim Thompson writes "Today's edition of Project
> >     Heresy at CNET News covers a very interesting new
> >     (?) project called Squeak by, of all people, The
> >     Disney Co. This project, targetted at embedded
> >     devices, has a Smalltalk heritage and is based, to
> >     some extent, on code from Apple. Apple required that
> >     Disney not commercialize their product, so Disney has released it as Open
> >     Source. Squeak is not itself an OS, but the Heretics speculate that Squeak
> >     will soon be married to a scaled-down linux kernel an ported to all
> > sorts of
> >     handheld devices. Squeak sounds reasonably cool in that it's based on
> >     Smalltalk-80 and has what sounds like a built-in "skins" feature for
> > its UI.
> >     Do any Slashdotters have more info on Squeak, on where to go for
> >     more information? "
> >
> >            Ryan Davis         -=-    Zen Spider Software
> >  -=- mailto:zss at ZenSpider.com -=- http://www.ZenSpider.com/ -=-
> > I know that you believe you understand what you think I said but,
> > I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

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