"Aqua" is the name Apple have given to their GUI interface design (because it looks like liquid). M$ have made an inferior copy for WinXP and have called it "Luna". No surprises there. On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:29, Robert MacLean wrote: > whats Apples "Aqua"? Is it Mac OS X? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robert MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:50 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux <OT> <TID> > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:40, Robert MacLean wrote: > > > heres my personal stand on M$. > > > If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the > > > OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux > : > :) > : > > > then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have > > a 2 > > > > bit OS and they charge too much for there products. M$ comes out > > with > > > > some of the best ideas in GUI's and ways of doing things. > > > > The Windos interface pre-Win95 was a cross between that of the Mac > > and one > > > developed at the Xerox PARC Institute. WinXP's "Luna" interface is a > > poor > > > rip-off of Apple's "Aqua". People attribute far too much to > > Microsoft, often > > > since they haven't used the environments that originated these > > designs. > > > -- > > Sridhar Dhanapalan. > > "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: > > LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." > > -- Jeremy S. Anderson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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