>Hardly. More along the lines of sheeple liking a pretty GUI, and
>right now there
>are no alternatives in their eyes. Show most users a *NIX box and
>they're gonna
>ask you why you're still using DOS... (True, I know a few that
>actually said that...)
So launch Xdm, and they never see the command line.
>Truth is, *NIX is too powerful - they fear the command prompt. The
>reason Apple's MacOS has
>failed is that they price their hardware out of the range of most
>buyers (and its a closed
"failed" Apple is shipping more units than ever, and is more
profitable than ever. I'd hardly call that a "failure".
>platform - where have all the 3rd party mobos gone?).. Rhapsody has
>failed for the same
"Rhapsody failed"? How? OS X server (a.k.a. Openstep 5,
a.k.a. Rhapsody) is still available and selling despite almost no
advertising from Apple, and OS X, which is OS X server with a
different GUI, and some library changes should be hitting beta in the
next 2 months, and shipping by the end of the Summer.
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