Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 00:15:39 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows ! Message-ID: <20961.872838939@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 02:53:23 %2B0200." <19970829025323.52918@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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Look, this was all already summed up very nicely by the gent (and I've forgetten who it was at this point) who said that the fundamental problem lies in the fact that those who most need these interfaces lack the time or skill to implement them, those with both skill and time not needing them enough to bother writing them. We can sit here all day discussing how NT has a nice drivable GUI and beats UNIX for user friendliness 9 ways to Sunday, but what's the point? It contributes absolutely nothing towards actually bring such a system for UNIX into being, and much of this ideological ground has been covered in previous "NT vs UNIX" discussions - there are a lot of vocal passengers on this bus, but still not a driver of any particular ability or distinction. This discussion also entirely misses the point that Microsoft has been able to do what it has done largely through its advantage of being a strict monarchy - orders for some standard level of GUI-friendliness come down from on high and those orders are carried out, regardless of whether or not they exhibit a level of technical sophistication or intrinsic extensibility which makes engineers happy. The UNIX die-hards would never settle for something like that, regardless of the end goals. Jordan
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