[oclug] GUI vs cmdline mail (was Top if my head sugestion for enhancment to GUI mailclients.)

[Mike_Kenzie at cscoop.ca]

Rod Giffin oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
25 Jun 2003 00:05:29 -0400
>On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 19:40, Brad Barnett wrote:
>> Furthermore, and I really will get burned for this, we need to target
>> Linux _for_ that future.

>happens a lot faster than I had anticipated. And Yes, we do need to
>position Linux for that future.
>

>Easy to grasp concepts, intuitive interfaces.  It almost sounds like
>we're planning Windows here.  The fact is, Linux is going to have a part
>in the future, whatever it is, and to have the biggest chance it's going
>to have to do some things that a few others are going to have some
>problems with.  Like, developing standards that all applications and
>even the OS lives by.  A haphazard - I almost said individualistic but
>that's not what I mean - approach isn't going to work in the near term.
>
>I'm also not 100% convinced that the current idea of a GUI interface,
>being "Windows" like if you will... is not the best way of going either,
>because there are some serious limitations for some people with that
>paradigm.  I'm not going to go out on a limb at the present time though,
>except to say that I'm aware of a few initiatives, actually I'm getting
>kind of involved in one of them,  to bring a much more universally
>accessible interface to the computing environment.

I was just about to send this, when I read the above.

In a recent Cnet article, Microsoft, Google may go head-to-head
(http://news.com.com/2009-1032_3-1020641.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed),

There is a mention of vision.  As we are well aware you can sell a vision
long before it becomes a reality.
Because of the open development model we support does the linux community
have a vision?