From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 5 14:42:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C38A37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:42:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 86475 invoked by uid 100); 5 Jun 2001 21:42:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15133.21081.613768.10453@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:42:49 -0500 To: Terry Lambert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy In-Reply-To: <200106051815.LAA17590@usr08.primenet.com> References: <20010529194223.P3636@lpt.ens.fr> <200106051815.LAA17590@usr08.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert types: > > Would you rather pay $5000 per seat or whatever it was for crap like > > CDE? That's where we'd be if the GPL'd alternatives didn't exist. > No, we'd be paying for Visix LookingGlass, and we'd all be much > happier. Please speak for yourself, not for others. I might be wiling to accept that people who want/like/need/will-put-up-with KDE, Gnome or CDE would be much happier, but not everyone fits into that category. I evaluated LookingGlass for a client once upon a time. Nothing I've learned about UI design since would make me change that negative evaluation - just the opposite, in fact. It's possible the product has changed enough to change that evaluation, but I've no interest in doing it again. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message