What is everyones opinion of X11? My personal opinion is that it was designed to allow the running of apps on one machine while viewing the running program on a separate machine......I think thats right. It does not seem to have been developed to offer the best desktop experience and I find myself wondering what there isn't an open source equivalent to the OS X desktop.....what is it called today, panther, jaguar or something like that. I'd love to hear your opinions on this matter.....and please feel free to correct me where I am wrong, I didn't put any effort into trying to make sure that I was right. cha
At 09:30 AM 8/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Very good point and entirely correct. However, this is how the big IT >companies play the game. I like to think of the SCO lawsuit as the Linux >community's "rite of passage". Kinda like a hazing incident that got a >little rough. ;) > >It is ultimately proof that Linux is hitting the big time. Is the SCO >lawsuit any more ridiculous than Jim Allchin (M$ VP) accusing Linux of being >"un-American" (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5015) or >Ballmer's statement that "Linux is Communist" >(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12266.html)? The big difference is >that the media covering the IT industry are stupid when it comes to issues >of kernel source code, free software licenses, and the convulted UNIX >lineage; admittedly an obscure subject. But, because the source code is >free, anyone can find out the truth for themselves. > >The SCO lawsuit will set us back; how long, I don't know. But we will emerge >from this little skirmish much stronger and ready for the larger battle to >come: the desktop. I personally think that X11 desktop themes form the basis >for business plans for small independent software and graphic design shops. >And the prospect of other windowing systems for Linux desktops is even more >exciting. > >And If I were Linus, I would be wary of buses bearing a Micro$oft logo. ;) > >John Hebert > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brad N Bendily >To: brlug >Sent: 8/29/03 9:06 AM >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] No plans to sue Linux companies, says SCO > > >On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Nashid Hasan wrote: > > > "The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux >companies, had > > no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a > > commercial Linux customer to court." > > > > http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html > > > >They don't need to sue any one. They've already created enough FUD that >could set Linux adoption back a couple of years. > >Hopefully the news that SCO is/was full of crap will be just as big as >the >news that SCO owned copyrighted code. >If this message doesn't get blasted to every media outlet in the world >then SCO will have accomplished just what Microsoft wanted them to. > >BB > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
