Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ames!dftsrv!kong!vesper From: vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Vesper - RMS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NOT (click to type) in NeXTStep? Message-ID: Date: 13 Nov 90 18:25:59 GMT References: <1990Oct28.165341.6949@cs.cmu.edu> <2955@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <56054@brunix.UUCP> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Lines: 22 In purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill) writes: > I DON'T WANT the NeXT to do the "work" for me. If I wanted to >be held by the hand, I'd buy a Mac. Please listen to what the >pointer-focus people are saying: we want to do things a certain way. >We do NOT want the NeXT or any other system to force us to do it a >different way. It is IRRELAVENT whether the NeXT way is "better", we >don't like it. OKay? > Now, I'm not saying that X+window manager is the greatest >thing since sliced bread. But at least it doesn't force you into a >fixed way of doing things. Well said, (for the ump-teenth time). I couldn't agree more. To Ronald who sparked this reply: You can tell us what you like, but don't tell us what we should like. >^.-.^ Mark Purtill purtill@dimacs.rutgers.edu (201)932-4580 (O) >((")) P.O. Box 1179, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ 08855 (201)220-6905 (H) -- Greg Vesper (vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov) 301-286-5162 Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, Maryland "Two basic facts of life: 1) There is a God. 2) You're not him."