Re: Bill Gates mentions Linux

CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 08:14:23 -0800


At 3:45 AM -0800 3/11/98, Lloyd Wood came up with the following:

> Certainly not.
>
> This is why we end up with screen-wasting 'button bars' instead of
> better interface metaphors, or a built-in drawing applications of no
> real use instead of decent hooks to an external drawing package,
> or all those really pointless features in Powerpoint.
>
> Customers make lousy designers.

I can agree 101% with that. The sad thing is now everybody and their kid
brother is using them. The one thing I probably hate most about using my PC
is getting some app and having these stupid button bars across the top.

Yeech!

Tim

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