Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!APPLE.COM!alan From: alan@APPLE.COM (Alan Mimms) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: MIT bashing (deprecating same) Message-ID: <8909262214.AA12219@internal.apple.com> Date: 26 Sep 89 22:14:42 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 I'd like to respond to the SEVERAL threads of xpert lately that have unabashedly (I couldn't help it) BASHED the HELL out of MIT. You know who you are. Every week, I come across cases where someone at MIT has done something that is positively GODLIKE. Unfortunately, they're HUMAN. They do, infrequently, make mistakes. This business about default visuals and the other business about "buggy" sample server code just go to underscore the fact that the people at MIT, DEC, IBM, HP, Sun, and, yes, Apple are creating a thing that is wonderful enough for thousands of people to take a crack at it. Many of them like it a lot. Others just can't see anything good to say, so they say bad things. May I suggest that if you find something about the various aspects of the X Window System that could be improved that you IMPROVE IT rather than complaining? Criticism without suggestion on how to fix the problem is NOT helpful (unless you're soliciting suggestions). Sorry. I feel much better now. alan