Few questions about speakup

[Gregory Nowak]

Now, that's a sad fact. Look at how yet again macroslop screwed people. Before windblows ever came out, I'm pretty sure that the average person who knew how to use a pc didn't rely as havily on a gui to get their work done.
Greg


On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:06:56PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi. Well, it is in any operating systems best interrests financially to go
> to a graphical user interface. The answer is simpl.
> The sited world simply can't use there computers without a mouse. You give
> them a computer without a mouse, and they will stair at it in dumb wonder,
> and will exclame that they can't use it.
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> I just fixed a laidies Windows 98 computer the other day. Her mouse got
> screwed up, and that was it. She didn't know how to access the start menu,
> shutdown her computer, and basically absolutely zip.
> 
> That is why some distributions like Mandrake Linux are designing around the
> gui, and leaving off some text programs. To us it sounds mordifying, but to
> the sighted world that is great, and they buy it, and Mandrake is happy, the
> buyers our happy, and business is booming.
> To Mandrake's credit the profetional additions include a wide range of both
> text and graphical which makes everyone happy.
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