From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 1 15:41:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E5537B401; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:41:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18455; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 16:40:56 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011101163902.043e2db0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 16:40:43 -0700 To: Nils Holland From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: NatWest? no thanks Cc: Paul Robinson , "Andrew C. Hornback" , , In-Reply-To: <20011101214159.C27349-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011101131856.04a4b960@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:54 PM 11/1/2001, Nils Holland wrote: >I love it when people try to minimize my bandwidth costs by sending short >and precise answers... Sorry, but you asked a "yes or no" question. That left two possible answers. ;-) >Seriously: How do you imagine it? Throw out the shell and make a GUI only >thing? Why? Even Apple, king of GUIs for naive users, didn't do that. >Will the masses out there ever use an OS where you have to type >something like "find / \! -newer report.tex"? Where you HAVE to type it? No. Where you CAN type it? Sure. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message