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In article <SCOTT.92Apr11141947@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:

   In article <FOX.92Apr11090050@graphics.nyu.edu> fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) writes:
   >In article <SCOTT.92Apr11024138@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
   >
   >   <A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book>
   >
   >Take this anti-NeXT propaganda to comp.editors.ed!  :)

   Think about the line.  Would the world really be a better place
   without _any_ televisions?  Doesn't television have a lot of
   potential (whether that is realized isn't part of my point :-)?
   Would anyone in their right mind suggest that since we've got
   television we can just get rid of books?

   [Stuff supporting the co-existance of GNU and command line deleted.]

I agree with you about GUI's and command lines, but I think that *on
the balance* the world *would* be a better place without TV.  By TV I
don't mean video monitors, and I don't mean video monitors attached to
VCRs, and I don't mean video monitors attached to a digital video
database.  I mean TV as we know it, programmed to maximize advertizing
revenues from millions of simultaneous viewers.  I couldn't live
without video monitors, but I'd like to try living without TV.  (And I
haven't gotten up the will power to try.  Yet.)

-david