Re: Look Out Macintosh!

[Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt@knology.net>]

Hi.  don't judge the Linux desktop by our current access to it.  I
recently got gnome 1.4 working for my sighted girl friend.  She's used
Windows, but not anything else.  She had no problems with gnome and has
already started comparing it with Windows.  She can customize it more
than she ever could with windows.

          Kenny

On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:44:22PM -0500, Jason Symes wrote:
> Now I can take issue with that, but I won't. Suffice it to say that Windows
> will stay no. 1 because of its easy, graphical interface.
> At 04:26 AM 9/14/02 +1000, you wrote:
> >
> >I'll take that bet,
> >and even go so far as to suggest that linux may well push mackentosh
> >far enough out of the loop so as to be a real threat to microsludge.
> >Having said that however, it's already a real threat. especially in the
> >area of accessability for disabled persons.
> >oh well,
> >just my australian $0.20
> >
> >On
> >Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:14:53PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> >> Yesterday's Wall Street Journal contained some interesting numbers on
> desktop market shares. Of course, you know who's products has the lion's
> share.
> >> But check out these two numbers for number two and number three:
> >> 
> >> Macintosh	3.1%
> >> Linux		2.7%
> >> 
> >> Seems to me Mac may be number three by this time next year? Anyone wanna
> bet on that?
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> 	
> >> 				Janina Sajka, Director
> >> 				Technology Research and Development
> >> 				Governmental Relations Group
> >> 				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> >> 
> >> Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175
> >> 
> >> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> >> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> >> http://www.openebook.org
> >> 
> >>    Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> >>    See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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> >-- 
> >Shaun Oliver
> >
> >
> >In a world without fences
> >          and walls who needs Windows and Gates?
> >
> >EMAIL: shaun_oliver@optusnet.com.au
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> Jason Symes
> kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat
> can cause kids
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> if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything.
> If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all!
> Just trying to plug away!