Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!wb3ffv!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation Message-ID: <200@raysnec.UUCP> Date: 14 Jan 91 17:47:01 GMT References: <1991Jan10.020437.14465@cs.mcgill.ca> <17136@csli.Stanford.EDU> <3573@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1117@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Jan12.143514.38@gacvx2.gac.edu> Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch Lines: 19 bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes: >Further, remember that any really good idea has to be forced down >peoples' throats, as compared to being adopted by popular acclaim. I >am reminded of that quote mentioning the adoption of U*IX as a >standard being more a matter of chance than anything. Since I couldn't find evidence of your tongue-in-cheek, I assume you really believe this! My experience as a developer is that if you can only get your ideas adopted by forcing them on the end user, then those ideas must be crap. Yes, popular acclaim based on premature understanding or lack of comprehensive information can backfire when the populace discovers that what they didn't know *could* hurt them. UN*X succeeded not by chance, but because nothing else has come out that has offered as comprehensive, extensible and cost-effective a solution. ---------------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech