Sorry for continuing the thread but I wanted to chip in this bit ... > I bent upon user friendliness,because if you really > see with your mind open, we came up from keyboards to > mouse to voice recongintion in user interface > technology. While programing switched from structed > moduler way - to object based - to object oriented and > currently putting at component base methodology. See > how internet came up with HTML slick thin form > objects. So this is all the result of simplicity and > improves userfriendliness. Would you ignore this > improvements in IT industry? I feel that we have actually paid a heavy price by going into closed source and reinventing the wheel everytime we want to do something in the software field. In the good olden days software and knowledge used to be shared and one could build on top of an exsisting thing. That is how science progresses. Linux and other OSS is bringing that back to the field. If we had not closed our doors with DOS/Windows/other Unix, the computing world would have built on top UNIX legacy and JINI type distributed technology might have been common by now. I feel that we had retarded by a decade or two in tech front. So this movement is not about Linux or userfriendliness or anything like that but about OSS where we build our society on the shoulders of each other. -swaps ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
