Gnome replaces Unity

[Bret Busby]

On 16/10/2017, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Liam Proven schreef op 15-10-2017 18:04:
>
>> You do a lot of rambling and self-contradiction, you know that? In one
>> line, you agree with me; in the next, you say I am talking nonsense;
>> in the next, something random and apparently unconnected and possibly
>> paranoiac... and repeat. It's very hard to follow and to work out if
>> you have an overall point here.
>>
>> I will attempt to respond, though.
>>
>> On 15 October 2017 at 16:21, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>>> Liam Proven schreef op 15-10-2017 15:25:
>>>>
>>>> I'd probably agree -- _if_ they knew Windows first.
>>>
>>> Otherwise they would never have started using a computer.
>>
>> Not even remotely, no.
>>
>> There are 7 billion people on the planet. About a third are on the
>> internet. About half have never touched a computer.
>>
>>> We can basically agree that they were trying to be different without
>>> good
>>> reason, whether that was because of legal threat or because of
>>> just....
>>> wanting to be not-windows.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>> There is no way you can create something good if the thing you would
>>> ordinarily create, is not allowed.
>>
>> Utter nonsense.
>
> Liam, I don't know if you're insulting me because I've shown you wrong
> or something or you have no arguments against this, or against me, but
> the thing you are going to say is so devoid of meaning it's not even
> funny.
>
>> Programming is a creative art.
>
> That means that you create what you want to create.
>
> Not what you don't want to create.
>

So, defects ("bugs") that are created, are intentional?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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