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- From: jburne@spock.uucp (John Burnette)
- Subject: Re: Dumping OW and running X11R5(Was: Speed of Openwin 3)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.140824.13687@spock.UUCP>
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- Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
- References: <1992Dec3.080604.4308@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Dec8.051850.18525@alf.cooper.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:08:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec8.051850.18525@alf.cooper.edu> hak@alf.cooper.edu (Jeff Hakner) writes:
- >
- >My question (possibly the start of a flame war, hopefully not):
- >My would anyone want to run OpenWindows. There must be some reason,
- >after all, SUN insists on shipping it instead of "pure" MIT X11.
- >However, I've yet to find a good reason why one would want OW.
- >(I should qualify that and replace "one" with "the average
- >computer-literate user").
- >
- >What's your opinion? We'd like to know.
- >
- Actually from the smug tone of your posting I doubt that
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- 1) You aren't anxious to start a flame war
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- or
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- 2) You have any significant interest in finding out people's opinion on the
- question. Especially since you have insinuated that OW users are somehow
- below average or computer-illiterate.
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- Sorry but I like the product. I use it all the time. Perhaps I will "progess"
- to a more suitable GUI as I become more enlightened.
-
- Course I don't know why anyone would buy a wordprocessor when one could
- run EMACS on a VT100......
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