Tom Berger wrote:
>
> Even if these comments come from a group that provides the standard
> desktop of the world's most renowned Linux distribution (which is in fact
> for *many* people a synonym for Linux)?
> Credit where credit is due: I am annoyed by reading everywhere nowadays
> that Linux seems to haven't had any GUI at all before GNOME. This is
> revisionism of the worst kind and the GNOME group apparently does nothing
> to prevent it from happening. And these kind of articles appear in the
> *big* media (NBC, BBC). Of course, *we* know better but what about the
> vast majority of people out there?
The vast majority does what the vast majority always does: Read
the papers (especially the ones with large glossy pictures), and
buy what the media says is best.
Ask 10000 Microsoft users (who came to computers after 1995) who
invented the GUI. Or even ask them who invented the PC.
If the media (and I mean the real media, not the geek's journals)
write some stuff about GNOME then it's GNOME for this time. The
decision makers don't read geek's journals.
Wolfgang
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