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To: Milk who wrote (809)	1/5/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2617

I think he misses one important point. The idea to embrace Linux is that it relieves the companies involved of any baggage to do with proprietary systems. It is the non-aligned operating system that all the vendors can play in equally without getting pushed around. Linux in effect is the computing commons where everybody can graze their application cattle. The flight to Linux will continue and a whole lot of vendors have beat MS there. The only bad thing about it? No good good GUI-cum-Window_Manager, like Windows 95 sort-of is. X is not the dream GUI. Nope. Its usability is way down the scale. Fle-X-ible has been done better. Is this the end of the world despite Linux's awesome complexity potential? Ans: no.. we can just go out and write one. And I think ...gasp that it can be done faster commercially than freeware.. why? well commercial does not have to mean closed API nor MS bully dominance.. you can be an easy to get along with commercial company.. and still make money on more than just support of intentionally rudimentary programs.. Freeware is living proof that getting along is sometimes better than defecting at winning friends.. something software systems desperately need.. mailto:echarter@vianet.on.ca EC<:-}