Responding to Tom Newton...
> On 2008-03-04, Tom Newton <tom@server.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-03-04, Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows@usa.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>> From his sig:
>>
>> "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a
>> completely unintentional side effect. --Linus Torvalds"
>>
>> Instead, Microsoft is destroying Linux. By surreptitiously
>> financing* KDE and Gnome, which are Windows-clone user
>> interfaces, and slowly turning Linux into just another version
>> of Windows.
>>
>> By making Linux accessible to ignorant appliance operators.
>>
>> * Do I have any proof? No. But I know that a _staggering_
>> number of person-hours of highly-skilled labor went into
>> producing those massive application suites, and that _someone_
>> has obviously been funneling millions of dollars into those
>> projects. Not to mention the documentation and technical
>> support and websites and...
>>
>> Can't think of a better suspect than Microsoft. It's a
>> brilliant strategy. I doubt that any of the developers and
>> staff have any idea where the money ultimately originates.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
> I'd like to thank the idiot trolls for keeping this thread alive.
>
> I don't read their garbage, but that's irrelevant. It doesn't
> matter what they say. It just matters that people see that
> obvious losers don't like what I posted.
>
> Which tells them I must have something on the ball, and that the
> original post is worth checking out.
>
> It always amazes me that people as stupid and ignorant as the
> typical troll can even operate computers.
>
> Once upon a time they could only use Windows or Mac.
>
> Now, thanks to KDE and Gnome, they can run Linux.
>
> Or rather, KDE and Gnome run Linux for them....
>
> This is a sad, sad, development.
>
> Tom
>

Has it crossed your mind that independant business interests, sick of
being shackled to M$ in part by a workforce that thinks Windows is
the only software, this it is somehow an organic part of computer
hardware, may have an interest (tax deductable R&D contributions and
all that) in making sure there is a recognisable, predictable, and
intuitive (for the average "Which button to I click?" end user)
standard user interface available that they can shove in front of
their employee user base without having to have them sent for
expensive and time consuming Soviet style brain washing and
re-education just so they can teach them to use Linux when they get
them back?

IOW, maybe Gnome/KDE/? are actually the very tools required to get
the masses already dependant on that kind of interface, into an work
environment where they and the interface type they have become used
to can at least be plugged into something other than "Mom's Computer
Corp" products?

Didja think of that Tom? Didja?

Nah. Probably not.

--
============== http://tinyurl.com/382gmp ==============
VirginMedia to sell customer data to Soviet Spyware Co!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_roundup/