Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (34265)	1/5/2004 11:48:32 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The funny thing is, yesterday's inward-turned free software hackers and today's outward-looking free software developers are often the same people, just a little older, with their acne cleared up. And members of the next generation coming up have always used GUIs on their desktops -- they are too young to remember DOS or CP/M -- so we can expect to see increasingly sophisticated open source desktop environments, even as the underlying structures keep improving. from newsforge.com lurqer