Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!ames!oliveb!amdahl!kucharsk From: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Siggraph sillyness Message-ID:Date: 9 Aug 89 19:20:42 GMT References: Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen House Lines: 52 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >A friend typed this in, not me. I wasn't even *at* SIGGraph. You >might get a laugh out of it. My feeling about this subject is: If you >don't like X, write your own freely copyable windowing system and >quit whining. >-russ > > > >Here's a tidbit from this SIGGraph you should like... > >These fliers were being scattered from the balconies at the SIGGRAPH >reception... [ Text of flyer deleted] >X windows. A mistake carried out to perfection. X windows. >Dissatisfaction guaranteed. X windows. Don't get frustrated without >it. X windows. Even your dog won't like it. X windows. Flaky and >built to stay that way. X windows. Complex nonsolutions to simple >nonproblems. X windows. Flawed beyond belief. X windows. Form >follows malfunction. X windows. Garbage at your fingertips. X >windows. ignorance is our most important resource. X windows. It >could be worse, but it'll take time. X windows. It could happen to >you. X windows. Japan's secret weapon. X windows. Let it get in >*your* way. X windows. Live the nightmare. X windows. More than >enough rope. X windows. Never had it, never will. X windows. No >hardware is safe. X windows. Power tools for power fools. X windows. >Power tools for power losers. X windows. Putting new limits on >productivity. X windows. Simplicity made complex. X windows. The >cutting edge of obsolescence. X windows. The art of incompetence. X >windows. The defacto substandard. X windows. The first fully modular >software disaster. X windows. The joke that kills. X windows. The >problem for your problem. X windows. There's got to be a better way. >X windows. Warn your friends about it. X windows. You'd better sit >down. X windows. You'll envy the dead. So, I wonder just what exactly X windows is? If you ask the folks at MIT or Digital, they only know about a window system named X, or the X Window System. I've heard someone is calling their version of X "X Windows." I guess these people must be flaming about that. -- William Kucharski ARPA: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,decwrl,sun,uunet}!amdahl!kucharsk Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are my own, and may not agree with those of any other sentient being, not to mention those of my employer. So there.