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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:17:01 -0600
From:      Chip Morton <tech_info@threespace.com>
To:        FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: preferred GUI toolkit for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20020320201243.01d9b0f8@threespace.com>
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References:  <20020320141702.B91598@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020320141702.B91598@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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At 06:41 PM 3/20/2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
>(I'm guessing that UNIX would be in a much better state if the X people
>had not stopped work on Fresco.  We probably wouldn't have had most of
>the mostly wasteful competitions between CDE/GNOME/KDE and C/C++ and X11
>toolkits.  Or at least better competitions between better designs.  And
>it would have been long ago available for M$Win/UNIX cross-platform
>application development.  The experimental version has been since at
>least '98.)

I've had this same thought before about all those Linuxes and the BSDs, but 
now I'm convinced that it's just human nature to try to build a better 
mousetrap.  There's no other way that I can really explain that people are 
still coming up with new Linux distributions these days. :-/

Of course, it still helps to have a dominant leader in situations like 
these.  Too many privates and not enough generals...

<< Chip Morton >>


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