(Fwd) Re: (Fwd) Re: Linux/open software (was Bill Gates write

[Louis Proyect]

Pat Bond's Dad:
>	2. To this day, Unix is a specialized tool; you need to know what
>you're doing, to use it.  Nobody ever developed a MAC-style GUI for it.
>It's too hard for most people to use.  Also getting it to work across a
>broad range of processors, with different mixes of attached peripherals,
>often requires a lot of knowledge and experience. 

Actually, what might be a possible paradigm  for the future is a Linux back
end and Java apps running on cheapo diskless front-end workstations. This
is what gives Gates nightmares.

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)