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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
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Date: 5 Nov 90 18:51:28 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> I think of X as the IBM-PC of the windowing world.  It's not that
> great a technological feat -- but it's open enough that people can fix
> the things that were done wrong.  It's not elegant -- but it works
> well enough to get your work done.  When it comes right down to it
> that's all most of us want anyway.
> 
	Congrats.  That was Well-Said.  However if vendors (and academics)
	want that little extra zip, that little something that
	differentiates their software from the others,  sometimes
	"well enough" is not "good enough".  Thank goodness NeWS is
	an alternative.

	Frank G.