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
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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