You have your expectations mixed - innovation is not the point of GNU\Linux. Freedom is. I'm not saying this just to sound like Stallman, it's important to understand that innovation/variety/interest is always built on the basic platform of freedom. Innovation is the first thing that goes when there is no freedom, because it is easier for the top feeders to optimize their techniques for herding and feeding off the masses when they all act the same. Whether we're talking about MS, the electricity company or Stalin doesn't matter.
Linux does give you freedom. It gives also innovation, but indirectly. Remember that the great majority of people prefer to be sheep most of the time, at least in some issues. I have a very strange mail client, but I read articles in xpdf, and browse in Mozilla. The base platform common to a free place is bound to be almost as boring as your 1984 lunch, or Hollywood movie. If you want innovation, by definition, you'll have to look for it yourself, off the beaten path. Or you can follow me into the rabbit hole, at www.squeak.org ;-) Daniel Shoshannah Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I wrote before (and on this list itself) is the fact that where > linux has the chance to really innovate and create something new and > great (when it comes to UI), way to many application writers prefer to > copy whatever see know from other OS (MS Windows, MacOS...), including > all the legacy "baggage" those UIs have, and that can be rid of. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
