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Keith Irwin wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 18:22 -0500, R S Gill wrote:
> 
> 
> So, seems to me, that evolution is becoming an integral part of the
> desktop experience, and my guess is that Ubuntu will want to encourage
> that.
> 
> Keith

Am I alone in finding this pretty scary? I mean, it's exactly the kind 
of thing I was trying to get away from in junking Windows. Where will 
those of us who don't want enforcement of officially approved 
applications go once this kind of 'shallow' integration gets fully 
implemented?

Integration, on the desktop or network or anywhere, should surely be 
done at the protocol or api level, or if that's not possible, just 
abandoned. Remember the Halloween memo? Is the gnome team aping 
Microsoft's 'de-commoditising'?