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After the introduction of Windows 95, it was clear that the free software universe was lacking a number of technologies and that we were lagging behind in vario
by wendroid 17y ago
After the introduction of Windows 95, it was clear that the free software universe was lacking a number of technologies and that we were lagging behind in various areas.
At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested in it inmediately [sic]. Upon my return to Mexico Federico and I started to design a GUI control infrastructure for Unix that we code named `GNOME'.
"The Story of the GNOME project"
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html
or "How one man ruined everything"
- bitwize 17y ago"In a world of small programs that did one thing well and communicated via text-based protocols... One man sought to challenge the system."
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- wendroid 17y agoUnix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. - ken