Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 00:38:08 +0200 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1018387396.37b617@mired.org> Cc: "Randall Hamilton" <nitedog@silly.pikachu.org>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Message-ID: <001201c1dc29$6503eb10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020402113404.A52321@lpt.ens.fr><3CA9854E.A4D86CC4@mindspring.com><20020402123254.H49279@lpt.ens.fr><009301c1da83$9fa73170$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15530.6987.977637.574551@guru.mired.org><012601c1dadb$104d5100$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.2846.277278.29276@guru.mired.org><005e01c1db44$e10d2a40$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.27851.19169.720598@guru.mired.org><001301c1db55$7c883950$0301a8c0@NITEDOG><009201c1db5e$41b1baa0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.33743.830853.456500@guru.mired.org><00c801c1db62$baa46b20$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15531.36674.46968.714882@guru.mired.org><003e01c1db8d$88a745e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15532.50244.102425.795045@guru.mired.org>
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Mike writes: > Not for common window management tasks. Most people using desktop computers are interested in more than just window management. > Apple's original design was intended to make > life easy for casual computer users, not for > the relatively intense usage that is typical > today. I don't see any typically intense use. > And MS looks almost exactly like the Mac > for the same reason that BeOS did - they > copied it from the Mac. In the same way that the Mac copied it from Smalltalk? If it's such a bad idea, why is it being copied over and over? > In other words, you were talking through > your hat, and letting your biases control > what you said, instead of actually having > anything objective. I used the words that best conveyed my meaning; "other words" are not necessary or accurate. > I think you aren't listing them because they > don't exist. If they do, go ahead and list > them and quit ducking the issues. Well, there are 100,000 applications or so available for Windows, and virtually none of them will run on any other platform. > Of course, if I press you for details on "all > else", you won't have anything. If I press you for details, you won't have anything, either. So what? > The existence of that minority proves that > the majority that insists that everyone is > just like them is wrong. The majority usually insists that most people are like them, and they are right. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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