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Article #74323Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins
From: CNEWS MUST DIE!
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 13:59
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 13:59
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dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) writes: > As for all the anger from the FSF over Apple and look n feel where are the > hoardes of graphical GNU tools of any form? Isn't emacs/epoch the ONLY tool > which "runs" in a X Window? Why aren't all the GNU tools packaged with a > graphical front end? Because nobody yet knows whether the FSF is ALLOWED to package its tools with a graphical front end. Especially if that front end includes a desktop, icons, pull-down menus, and so on. mathew
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,15ed716c9ecc1ded X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-14 00:31:19 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: "look and feel" monopoly incentives and MacOS and 1-2-3 origins Message-ID: <012V217w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: 13 May 91 13:59:08 GMT References: <35210@athertn.Atherton.COM> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 14