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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Stuck with X?  (was Re: Alternate as a Meta key in emacs??)
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Date: 27 Feb 90 00:29:19 GMT
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In article <6924@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) writes:
>      Are we really going to be stuck with X windows for the next 10 years?

We weren't supposed to be stuck with it at all.

This weekend a large number of Bay Area computer hackers
(innovators and developers, *not* crackers) got together to do a
little show & tell and talk about what's going on in the world.
Here's a timely paraphrase from someone I'll identify only as a
current Xerox employee:

"X has been a success if viewed in the proper light.  Everyone
acts like X is a product.  X is not a product, and not supposed
to be a product.  It's a research project.  It's been a very
successful research project; we've learned a lot of things from
it.  It is not a good product, because it isn't supposed to be a
product at all."
					-=EPS=-