On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:19:48 -0400, John Steinberg
wrote, in part:

I prefer to couch it as hypocrisy humor, John. Or do as I say not as I
do paternalism. It was also s.a.a. social commentary as there have
been a number of posters here who object to posts with links but little
or no text.

Think of it less as an insult and more as greeking or meaningless
filler.

I don't use smileys in my posts either, trusting people to see the
context, so I can understand if I reacted emotionally.

I should note that I blame Apple for the Windows monopoly. After all,
they licensed Microsoft, and sued - maybe with justification - GEM
Desktop out of existence.

Basically, that meant that once the market finally moved on from DOS to
the GUI, nobody dared to compete, because they weren't sure if they
could add any features to the Xerox GUI without being sued.

Oh, yes; then Apple sued Xerox. Actually, the real story is more
complicated than that, so it isn't as bad as it sounded when I heard the
news.

Of course, now, Apple has reason to allow KDE to continue to exist...

John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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