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Re: [KDE] Qt -> Open Source Licence (QPL)!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (NetProfit Inc.)
Thu Nov 19 11:54:54 1998
In-Reply-To: <19981119091113.C639@dspecialists.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 09:54:17 -0500
Reply-To: netpro@win-mtl.net
From: "NetProfit Inc." <netpro@win-mtl.net>
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Yes, the name of the game is productivity. Linux has more potential and at=
lower cost than any other OS, bar none, but it won't fly for the average=
user unless it can get more done, more easily, in less time and at lower=
cost than Windows. Now, I don't doubt that *nix mavens are talented=
people, much more so than the average shopper in Future Shop or Circuit=
City, but we have to make it easier to compute for everyone, else we're=
just a voice crying in the wilderness with no one following. It isn't=
right to bitch about Gates & Co., however big and heartless they may be.=
We're pro's and pro's don't bitch about it, they just do it!
Let's work together to produce at least ONE form of common interface the=
average user can be productive with, leaving in the customizing features=
we have come to know and love, so that Microsoft can start bitching about=
US! Then, we've done something to be proud of.
Remember our motto: "In a world without walls or fences, what need do we=
have for Windows or Gates?
Lecture over (it was pointed at me, too)
I are fly, 'bye.........
Glen Eldridge
Beaconsfield, Quebec
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
On 11/19/98, at 4:35 AM, Joerg Mertin wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 06:23:30PM -0600, Ken Archer wrote:
>> As much as I like KDE (I've used it for a year now) I don't think we=
need a
>> "standard desktop for linux". The real beauty of Linux is that you can
>> configure your system the way you want it. More power to gnome and all=
the
>> window managers out there. I'll continue to use KDE until, if and when,=
gnome
>> catches up.
>
>You=B4re right, but the `dumb` User needs a standard. B.e. my Girlfriend=
was
>very amased, she=B4s able to use netscape mail from Windows and LiNUX=
using
>the Shared directory from the LiNUX Server. The Rest (KDE etc.) is always
>critisied, since it does not work like Windows, except for the Crashes and
>Installation time (5 Hours for Windows against 20 Minute for Linux) which
>are way better under linux.
>
>Now, if we could get out a Standard Desktop for LiNUX for the NAU (Normal
>Average User), we should do it. What we need to achieve is to get them to
>say when they sit in front of a Windows Box: Ugh, this doesn=B4t work like
>on LiNUX... Then, world domination is in reach :)
>
>PS: All this is my personal Opinion, and has nothing to do with the
>Company I work for...
>
>Regards
>--
>In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on
>... the overriding problem of war and peace.
> -- James Slagle
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