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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Todd Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Third, if "embrace and extend" means to make a better Windows, then I<br>don't agree. It's unrealistic to expect Linux to completely dream up<br>
a brand new user interface; people know the Windows paradigm and they<br>have work to do. But open source has the flexibility and speed to<br>*own* the desktop user experience. *We* should be setting the<br>standard that Mac and Windows will follow. Rather than embracing the<br>
model they present, the Linux community would do well to feel<br>ownership of the desktop experience and to treat it as their own slate<br>to draw on.<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div>
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<div>Well said, I don't want a "Windows" experience. I want a better experience and I have found that with Linux.<br clear="all"></div>
<div></div><br>-- <br>Jim Asbille, MSM<br>registered Linux user number 388067<br><br>"There's no place like 127.0.0.1."<br>