Hooray for Bluecurve - Not

Hooray for Bluecurve - Not

Posted Dec 13, 2002 18:22 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (guest, #755)
Parent article: Hooray for Bluecurve (Linux Journal)

Count me amongst the people who aren't convinced this is a good idea -- since what it amounts to is changing the 2-desktop-manager race into a *3*-desktop-manager race.

Alas, I don't think the linked story really makes it's own point all that effectively, and I'm a bit surprised -- the problem appears to be about 50/50 that the author didn't write a thesis sentence and outline first, and that he doesn't really speak sufficiently fluent and colloquial English to get the job done in an English-language publication.

In any event, no, I *don't* think it's really a Great Idea to try to stamp out competition in the desktop manager space. As long as everyone's apps will all *run* -- even if they don't look quite like they fit in -- I'm fine with it.

I think that, in the Long Run, the health of the operating environment is just as important as user comfort -- after all, look what the users have to cope with now, since Microsoft doesn't have much competition in the "Win32 API desktop operating environment" space...

But, as usual, maybe it's just me.

So many things are just me...

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