On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 08:29:24AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> But it strikes me as a lot more sensible to hope for rapid development
> of the GNUstep environment, if you for some reason particularly like
> Display PDF.
If GNUstep's Display PostScript will ever work outside of X, I think
that this might well be the first major milestone for Linux on the
desktop. I think many people will agree that the X Window System is one
of the major things holding back Linux from the desktop, with its
idiosyncrasies and brain damage. I'd love to see it vanish forever.
A few quotes from fortune(6):
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
-- Rob Pike, on X.
Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be
gone in two years. He was half right.
-- Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie is twice as bright as Steve Jobs, and only half wrong.
-- Jim Gettys
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