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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!news.achilles.net!hermes.achilles.net!news From: pjlahaie@zeus.achilles.net (Paul JY Lahaie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 16 Apr 1996 19:12:11 -0400 Organization: Achilles Internet Ltd Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4l19gb$sn8@zeus.achilles.net> References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <yfgd959fo96.fsf@time.cdrom.com> <199604161719.SAA02142@kythera.demon.co.uk> <31740061.389946B0@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.achilles.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21270 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:567 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3160 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2967 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17229 comp.os.linux.advocacy:45206 In article <31740061.389946B0@lambert.org>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >I'v eoften thought that X should provide an object interface, >and that look-and-feel should be implemented in X server -- >like the window manager should be. I hope that after you have such thoughts you wake up from that horrible nightmare :-) The X server should not enforce policy. It should do what it needs to do, which is windows, and nothing else. The entire flexibility of X is lost if you force a policy on the user. - Paul