Linux desktop lacks innovation

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2007 12:53 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> > On Nov 14, 2007 5:03 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Interesting.  And I'd really like to try some non-Windows clones, but
>> >> going
>> >> back to an 80's look & feel????  I don't think so.  And I'm not giving
>> >> up konqueror :-)
>> >
>> > Glad you like it. I can't stand Konqui myself.
>> >
>> > But anyway. Who said anything about going back to the 80s? ROX and
>> > GNUstep are both perfectly modern GUIs.
>>
>> Er, you did.  When you talked about ROX having an 80s look.  I remember
>> the
>> 80s.  There's nothing about that decade that I want to remember, prior to
>> November 1989.
> 
> See, this is what I mean about uninformed comment.

Lovely.  I read your article (every word), agreed with much of it, and took
issue with _one_ item, and you call it uninformed comment.  Well, if my
comment is uninformed, then it was only based on uninformed sources (ie,
yours).
> 
> Name a new desktop GUI that has appeared in the 2000s. Go on. *One*.

Why?  I agreed, I'd like to see some innovation.

> All you ever use - all anyone ever uses - is 1980s tech. ROX and
> GNUstep are no more 80s than Windows or the Mac. 

And I didn't say it was - but _you_ cited the retro 80s look - and I don't
_want_ an 80s look.

> "I won't use something from the 80s" indeed. What drivel. You'd better
> get an abacus then, 'cos the alternative is a command line, and that's
> from the 1960s.

I'm shocked!  You represented yourself as a journalist, and then indulge in
such flagrant misquoting.  I never said that.  I never even said anything
_close_ to that.  You, sir, are a fraud.

<plonk>
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derek