Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

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           jason@ukpost.com "Jason Clifford" writes:
> Why do you assume that all software has a 'fairly short useful lifespan'.
> Just because a package is superceded it is not redered useless. There are
> many people who are still running WordPerfect 5.0 as their word processor
> becuase it does everything they need.
> 
> I even have an old copy (about 9 years) of a C compiler for DOS that would
> be very useful to me if I ever decided I wanted to compile something for
> DOS.
> 
> Old or superceded does not equate to useless.

Microsoft's entire business strategy is based on making old software
useless, so you have to buy newer software (from them of course).

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
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