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[Ryoga no baka <barrows oswego oswego edu>]

On 9 Feb 1998, Alan Shutko wrote:

> This is a big difference in paradigm between leafnode type solutions
> and Agent.  The Agent paradigm is inherently single user.  It's also
> very hands on.  Many people may not like this (like me... I like
> leafnode) but many people do and they will not be happy with leafnode.

They'd probably be happy with SLRN :)  I did hear someone was porting it,
if someone is willing to do anything to help GNOME I'd suggest people stop
discouraging them.

People enjoy talking about the necessity of doing things the UNIX way.  It
was my understanding that GNOME was a project, much like KDE, which was
intended to make UNIX more accessable to more people.  Therefore, there
should be some programs that are friendly to those who haven't used UNIX
before, and just think it'd be nice to have a stable, highly networked
operating system.  Sometimes the UNIX way isn't the perfect way.

It's nice to have your own utopian ideas of what GNOME programs should be,
but please allow others to write what they feel comfortable with.  It'd
reduce the traffic on this list manyfold, and much more work would get
done:)

I suppose you should keep in mind that this is from someone who more or
less refuses to conform...  I respect Miguel for what he's written
(Without MC, I might never have settled on Linux), and others I'm
sure have done a lot as well.  But I don't always agree with everything
you say!  Nor will everyone.  Obviously many of you don't agree with me
much of the time.

The unique thing about the free development model is that it's
free...  People make whatever they want, and if it's useful to others,
it's there for them to use, and modify if it doesn't suit their exact 
needs.  Linux didn't go microkernel just because it was 'the right thing
to do'...  But it's quite widely in use anyway, ne?  And there is even
MKLinux out there now.  Funny how things work out.

ja ne,

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