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- From: nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Web Broser - Egad Intl.
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 15:23:09 GMT
- Organization: Customer at DKnet
- Message-ID: <1212.6580T966T831@login.dknet.dk>
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- In article <4cfk16$5ep@sinsen.sn.no>, Ilan Sharoni (ilan@sn.no) wrote:
-
- >>Around 1MB is a lot of space? Gee whiz, 1MB HD space is what, half a
- >>buck or something? I actually spent more money *downloading* it!
-
- >>Compare that sorry MB to the amount of space going to proprietary,
- >>non-shared GUI code, plus all those other GUI libraries out there
- >>which are only required by a couple of apps in existence.
-
- >>Some Amiga users are tight-fisted beyond rational thought.
- >>I certainly welcome a non-MUI browser, but mostly because it would
- >>mean less whining and disinformation about MUI. Hopefully.
-
- >Whether MUI is good or not, or big or not, is not the point: If a program
- >requiers a non-standard whatsoever in order to work, it should either supply
- >it, or let the user choose an alternative.
-
- That's the same as saying AmiTCP should be included with every
- program that uses it.. I agree if we're talking commercial software
- but people who can get PD and shareware MUI programs will in most
- cases also be able to get MUI.
-
- I hate wasting time and money on downloading reqtools.library because
- the program uses it. Just let it say so if it can't find it, it
- should be up to the user to get hold of it.
-
-