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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.alt.net!news1.alt.net!news.aros.net!usenet From: jbrush@aros.net Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,alt.org.team-os2,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Is Microsoft's Internet plan more about its love of power than about users? Date: 9 May 1996 13:28:31 GMT Organization: ArosNet Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4msrtv$nap@news.aros.net> References: <4mlpnf$d4p@sidhe.memra.com> <4mnf93$3qo_002@mvandyke.ntr.net> Reply-To: jbrush@aros.net NNTP-Posting-Host: anp52.aros.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.fan.bill-gates:22087 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:105384 comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc:136118 comp.os.os2.advocacy:200695 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:105189 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48724 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19048 In <4mnf93$3qo_002@mvandyke.ntr.net>, mvandyke@ntr.net (Disk Operating Symian) writes: > >Let another company give us a GUI that runs on the hardware platforms that we >require, develop with others the software to run on it, and perhaps half of us >will move to that new world. Let it begin now so that we can see it within 20 >years. We will not see it within this century. > You already have one, but its a little different and requires some thought to set up and use. So you see, you need to rephrase your comment to read 'give us a GUI that is brain dead and filled with wizards so we don't have to think, that runs on the hardware platforms that we require, develop with others the software to run on it, and perhaps half of us will move to that new world.' You see, talk is cheap. John