Now, that's a sad fact. Look at how yet again macroslop screwed people. Before windblows ever came out, I'm pretty sure that the average person who knew how to use a pc didn't rely as havily on a gui to get their work done. Greg On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:06:56PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi. Well, it is in any operating systems best interrests financially to go > to a graphical user interface. The answer is simpl. > The sited world simply can't use there computers without a mouse. You give > them a computer without a mouse, and they will stair at it in dumb wonder, > and will exclame that they can't use it. > > I just fixed a laidies Windows 98 computer the other day. Her mouse got > screwed up, and that was it. She didn't know how to access the start menu, > shutdown her computer, and basically absolutely zip. > > That is why some distributions like Mandrake Linux are designing around the > gui, and leaving off some text programs. To us it sounds mordifying, but to > the sighted world that is great, and they buy it, and Mandrake is happy, the > buyers our happy, and business is booming. > To Mandrake's credit the profetional additions include a wide range of both > text and graphical which makes everyone happy. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
