Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:53:25 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1016596406.8c6919@mired.org> To: "Bob Kovacs" <bkovacs@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <15505.28725.937368.158235@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs> References: <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs>
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[Moved from -questions to -chat.] In <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs>, Bob Kovacs <bkovacs@mindspring.com> typed: > When will Free BSD have a default desktop as elegant as Mac OSX?. Or is that just a dream. If Apple borrowed elements from Free BSD than why can't the favor be returned and Apple allow Free BSD to use the Aqua interface for Free BSD. > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2713.1100" name=GENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When will Free BSD have a default desktop as > elegant as Mac OSX?. Or is that just a dream. If Apple borrowed elements > from Free BSD than why can't the favor be returned and Apple allow Free BSD to > use the Aqua interface for Free BSD.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> Probably about the time the most popular user mail agent on the internet quits sending HTML by default, and people starts wrapping lines at 78 characters as RFC 2822 says they should. You have to ask Apple why they wouldn't do that. I think the answer is obvious - if people could get the Mac interface without having to pay for a Mac, why would anyone buy a Mac? I also recommend you check out what Jef Raskin - who designed the original Mac interface - has to say about the OSX interface. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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