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--- Ben Rosenberg <ben@whack.org> wrote:
my desktop soon. Also, the most elegant desktop every created in my humble (yeah right ;) opinion was NeXT..it was awesome and Apple would have done well to just update that and make it OSX. It was 10X the desktop that OSX 9.X and below were..or any Windows OS. It was a pleasure to use..and I did so on my P5-100 for about 2.5 years...which was dualbooted with OS/2..another very nice desktop that shouldn't have died.
Ben, there was no argument about elegance. There was an argument for functionality and readily available killer apps beyond web/mail servering realm. It's very hard to argue anything when you talk to a bunch of infantile adults who deviate from the topic. I don't mind elegance regardless of platform, in fact not only GUI. Even CUI can be done ugly or elegant. That's where elegant and efficient/functional/optimal meet. Since majority is visual and tactile-kinesthaetic GUI approach is the way to go. This is one of the reasons why speech recognition alone is not going to revolutionise usability of binary processing gadgets. I am glad as well as you are that Linux has such a following and advocacy movement. It's like established and alternative medicine: they fight, learn to co-exist, merge at some point then fight again and so on... Dark Side will have to learn some new surviving skills, and who knows , may be they will stop twisting and diluting standards and pay attention to RFCs at some point? Dream on... :) As for Reiser FS, talk to Oyracle people: they lost a lot of data on RFS. Try XFS, it's sweet. My point was: instead of bringing in the Russian Death Squad to waste resources on RFS, they could finally get a nice and finally functional e-mail program. if you want to win this war, drop this snobbish MUA/MTA lingo - it doesn't help to bring attractive and elegant ladies into Open Source. it's called e-mail program for a normal person. it was an average person who made automobile ubiquitous, not Herren Daimler und Benz or Mr Ford and Dodge brothers. And what is RMS? ... just kidding...Again: stuffing the box with outdated and non-functional software and not making money doing so is lower than to be called Microsoft. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/