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[Ilan Volow <listboy AT clarux.com>]

On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:06 PM, zman wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Ilan Volow wrote:
> > Hopefully, in 10 years, there won't be a command-line or any other
> > trace of unix in whatever OSS OS that achieves world domination.
>
> Dude you need a serious clue. Command-line is not a bad thing. An OS
> without a CLI is pretty much useless. There will never be an OS worth
> anything without a CLI. The only OS you will see without a CLI is a 
> closed
> source one.

I think the fact that some people in the Open Source community 
associate an environment where absolutely everything is done 
graphically with proprietaryness speaks volumes about why the current 
offering of open source UI's suck.



> Hell even winblows has a command-line. PLease step away from
> the crack pipe.

From what I've seen, if an OS supports a command line, the 
command-line-thinking without fail finds a way to leak into the GUI. 
Saying that the command line isn't a bad thing is like saying a site 
for radioactive waste isn't a bad thing (it does create jobs, after 
all). People tell you "no, no. It'll never leak out. It's buried under 
an entire mountain of stuff. There's no chance of it polluting 
anything". And then five years later everyone in the valley around the 
mountain starts getting weird cancers and people catch three-eyed fish. 
Or in the case of operating systems, you find a hell of a lot of GUI 
apps sprouting system-oriented jargon or all-lower case executable 
names with dashes in the middle like foo-install-tool.

--
Ilan Volow
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!