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From: dennis@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Dennis Gentry)
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Subject: Grumpy about Dopey Window Systems...
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Date: 5 Feb 91 05:55:24 GMT
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   Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 22:49:18 -0500
   From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
   To: info-futures@world.std.com

   If your choices are awful, well, I won't use the software. If they are
   merely good, I probably will use your software. If they are very good,
   I will rave to my friends about what wonderful taste you have and how
   they should all immediately write large checks and send them to you so
   we can all share in this experience.

Have you tried a NeXT?  They made many excellent choices with
their window system (and many other pieces of their system), I
think.  And made it easy for software developers (perhaps not
always end-users) to make good choices.  If you think it's
distasteful to be an X end-user, you should write an X program
some time.  Just the thought of it gives me a frission.
(Please, this is not an invitation to start the "we want X on
NeXT," "No we don't," "Yes we do" flamefest in this mailing
list, which would be an inappropriate place for it.)

Perhaps you weren't talking exactly about aesthetic choices, but
I think aesthetic choices are important, and NeXT did a superb
job at that, and at least a good job (I think excellent) with
everything else.

Dennis

Disclaimer:  I liked NeXT's choices so much that I now work for
them, but of course I'm speaking only for myself.