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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2432)	8/7/2002 5:31:50 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

X gotta go, Joe. Ask yourself why no Linux desktop. Ask yourself if attitude like D. ritchie as to no cursor addressing is practical. Ask yourself why windows developers cannot/donot want to develop for Linux-X. If it were dead easy why not do it? Practical point is, graphical development in X cannot be simplified down to GTK or Tcl/Tk. They won't completely fill the bill. They also need RAD tools. They are not cross platform solutions to bust the Microsoft stranglehold. They will not build a GUI. Printing is also a weak point in Linux. PS is way too much a tool of proprietary interests. I deplore the wholesale website publishment fandango that is going Adobe. Adobe is another microsoft. There are not easy tools to make PDF-Ps output documents. And that brings us to a second major point. GSview and Ghostscript is a bottleneck. I note that GSview will not work with the latest Ghostscript on Slackware 7.1. This is not merely a minor frustration. It underscores the fragmentation of the Linux world and the problem with its software in general. I admit that being able to load down and compile free software is a great advantage. But it has to work. If it doesn't it has to be troubleshootable and documented. If it doesn't we aren't going to rewrite it. EC<:-}