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> In-Reply-To: <t2adt292hn.dt2@localhost.localdomain> 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 >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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