We badly need some real press for Mandrake and KDE. ;)
Any journalists here?
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 19:06:14 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] gnome?
>
> 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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