Re: The history of windows.

From: The Ghost In The Machine (ewill_at_sirius.athghost7038suus.net)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:00:38 GMT

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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 wrote
on Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:13:06 -0300
<4158e4d2$23$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>:
> begin In <4157f503$0$4054$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, on 09/27/2004
> at 09:45 AM, jmfbahciv@aol.com said:
>
>>But even Unixing is becoming an exercise in eye candy.
>
> Perhaps. But the Gnome and KDE folks will have to really work at it if
> they want to become as bad as Redmondware. They're currently nowhere
> near. But if I see a paper clip[1] then I'm going to start looking at
> *bsd instead of Linux.
>
> [1] Have I mentioned how much I hate m$ b00b?
>

Well, there is OpenOffice's little light bulb. I suppose someone with
very evil intent could modify the image to look like a certain
bentwire character... :-)

(That would probably bend a number of people out of shape. :-) ) 

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