Re: The history of windows.

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 09/28/04


Date: 28 Sep 2004 16:49:22 GMT

On 2004-09-28, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

>>But even Unixing is becoming an exercise in eye candy.
>
> Perhaps. But the Gnome and KDE folks will have to really work at it if
> they want to become as bad as Redmondware. They're currently nowhere
> near. But if I see a paper clip[1] then I'm going to start looking at
> *bsd instead of Linux.

Huh? BSD runs Gnome and KDE as well. If you want to avoid
platforms capable of running Gnome and KDE, you're going to
have to stick with CP/M.

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