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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 09:45:02 +0100
To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>,
	"Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air..
Cc: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
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At 9:11 AM +0100 on 2001/12/08, Anthony Atkielski wrote:

>>  Is the answer "because Apple developed it, and
>>  Apple has the right, being the developer, to
>>  decide what it finds nice to develop" sufficient ...
>
>  No.  I was hoping for an explanation of why Apple chose to pass on one of
>  the much-touted strengths of UNIX, namely, an open-standards-based, widely
>  available implementation of a graphic user interface.

	Because they've got something that is better?  That sounds like a 
pretty good answer to me.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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