Re: Any experience with "The Last One"?

From: Charles Richmond (richchas_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:56:45 GMT

goose wrote:
>
> gerryq@indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn) wrote in message news:<UzEAb.3565$nm6.18855@news.indigo.ie>...
>
> <snipped>
>
> > Windows is designed as an integrated software suite. Forcing it to
> > reconstruct itself according to a different design philosophy cannot
> > reasonably be construed other than as an attempt to reduce it to the
> > level of Linux and its conflicting GUIs.
> >
>
> <nit>
> windows is still playing catchup to Gnu/Linux systems. I suspect
> that they may actually rise to the level of
> XFree + (enlightenment/kde/gnome/windowmaker/etc) in about five years.
> </nit>
>
> Gradually, they will adopt the Xwindows design and refer to it
> as YetAnotherInnovation(tm).
>
This sounds logical to me. After all, Billy Boy "invented" the
Macintosh GUI interface with Win95. So it is *not* a stretch to
to think that in Win08, Billy will "invent" X-Windows.

As Walt Disney supposedly said about the musical score to
"Fantasia": "This will make Beethoven!!!" 

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