Re: Fundamental issues with open source software

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Author: Craig White
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Fundamental issues with open source software
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:37, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Craig White wrote:
>
> > that may be your advice but OS 9 is legacy and weak in terms of UI
> >
> > OS X is just simply confused UI
> >
> > Windows XP is close to a good UI - most people don't get the idea of
> > the
> > difference between the two mouse buttons and hiding 'My Computer' and
> > 'My Network Places/Network Neighborhood' is simply stupid.
> >
> > I think that Gnome and KDE are close to usability to either OS X or
> > Windows XP
> >
> > That isn't a big problem for desktop Linux.
>
> My experience simply doesn't bear this out. Windows XP has totally
> defeated smart people trying to configure a simple home network, for
> example.

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Possibly but home networking isn't any easier on Macintosh or Linux

Craig

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