Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: X Consortium "success" (was Re: Copywrongs) Message-ID: <12452@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 21 Aug 89 21:17:26 GMT References: <8908181535.AA08568@cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 17 |The X Consortium's "success" is collusion in the purest form, and I |would hope that FSF would refrain from such tactics in favor of simply |providing a superior product and letting the technically (and morally) |superior solution win. Like everyone else, FSF must cooperate with X |for now, though hopefully someday soon a superior window system |technology will be freed for public use. Mgr from Bell Labs looks pretty good. It is simple and elegant. X looks like a beached oil tanker in comparison. Maybe FSF could talk to the people that developed mgr and see if they'd be willing to let FSF have it. It's already freely redistributable. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** Copyright 1989 by Sean Casey. Only non-profit redistribution permitted. *** ``Why can't anything be as simple as following the instructions???'' -me