Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <6uran1$cak$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, Alan Morgan
<amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> writes
>No, but the lifespan of software is still pretty short when compared with
>the lifespan of a book, piece of music, or painting.  A book that was written
>50 years ago is still perfectly readable and useful today.  Paintings can
>be hundreds of years old and still be appreciated as much today as they were
>when they were painted.  I'd be willing to bet that in 50 years you won't
>be able to run Windows 98 on any computer than doesn't come from the collection
>of some computer archivist.

Only if you accept the premise that we all MUST throw away the systems
which work as we want in order to replace them with something new just
because it is new and the marketing men tell us to.

In any event a piece of software can be ported to a new platform. It is
still the same piece of software, just running on a newer platform.
-- 
Jason Clifford

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/30
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