eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (02/27/90)
In article <6924@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) writes: > Are we really going to be stuck with X windows for the next 10 years? We weren't supposed to be stuck with it at all. This weekend a large number of Bay Area computer hackers (innovators and developers, *not* crackers) got together to do a little show & tell and talk about what's going on in the world. Here's a timely paraphrase from someone I'll identify only as a current Xerox employee: "X has been a success if viewed in the proper light. Everyone acts like X is a product. X is not a product, and not supposed to be a product. It's a research project. It's been a very successful research project; we've learned a lot of things from it. It is not a good product, because it isn't supposed to be a product at all." -=EPS=-