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From: shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs)
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Subject: Re: Steve Jobs at USENIX
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Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 18:58:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 12 18:58:27 1987
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In article <1299@wor-mein.UUCP> dave@wor-mein.UUCP (Dave Axness) writes:

>At the USENIX conference in Phoenix, the keynote address was given by Steve
>Jobs.  I was very disappointed that he was allowed to make a comment like
>"X windows is brain damaged and will die" without providing any information
>to back up his assertion.

"Allowed"?  Keynote speakers have the privilege of saying whatever they
want, up to and including making fools of themselves in public.  I suppose
Jobs thinks we all want Macintosh primitiveness on our Suns and HPs...

I predict NeXT will die before X does.

							stan shebs
							shebs@cs.utah.edu