On Wednesday 10 October 2001 11:21 am, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2001 10:37, you wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Neil Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > Ugh. Gnome, polished? I refer you to the quote from theregister about
> > Gnome2.0, the roughcut release:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22025.html
> >
> > Made me laugh, anyway!
>
> It is funny. One thing that should have made GNOME-ites worry, was when
> Sun announced support for it. If you look at Sun's UI track record on
> picking the wrong UI, it would surely be described by Private Eye readers
> as a 'curse of GNOME'.
>
> "The latter has even managed to convince Sun and HP to compromise the
> stability of their UNIX systems by pledging to make GNOME their default
> desktop, replacing the ancient and widely loathed Motif-based CDE."
...and why not that utterly fabulous KDE?
I think politics had much to play in the desicion, as the Registe article
hints.
Jim
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