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Subject:    RE: [Chat] KDE/GNOME main lacks, accordingly to an Italian
From:       "Timothy R. Butler" <kde () uninetsolutions ! com>
Date:       2000-03-20 2:34:49
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Tom,
  Microsoft did not purchase Intuit. They tried the FTC denied the merger's
completion in wwaayy back in '96.

  -Tim

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: kde-request@lists.netcentral.net
> [mailto:kde-request@lists.netcentral.net]On Behalf Of Condon Thomas A
> KPWA
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:51 AM
> To: KDE general mailing list
> Subject: RE: [Chat] KDE/GNOME main lacks, accordingly to an Italian
>
>
>
> Folks,
>
> > >1) A GUI-based installation tool equivalent to InstallShield and Wise
> >
> > I would agree we need to make installation more
> > user-friendly. kpakage is a
> > start, but a long way from the gui-friendliness of
> > installshield. So yes, I
> > would welcome an IS-type product.
>
> Please note that this is not *intended* as an M$ bash, but it will sound
> that way.
>
> I *like* being able to choose what gets installed on my machines.  M$
> purchased Intuit (producer of TurboTax and Quicken software) and the next
> revision of TurboTax removed my current browser and replaced it with IE4.0
> whether I wanted it or not.  *Despite the fact that I was running
> IE5.0*!!!
> This is *not* user friendly.  There was a button to allow me to
> select *not*
> performing this amazing feat, but it was disabled.  Give me the option to
> choose, please.  Otherwise it isn't user friendly, it is Big
> Brother taking
> care of you -- in the worst way.
>
> I wouldn't *mind* a GUI install, as long as the options remain ours to
> select as we please.
>
>
>    In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,
>
>    Tom  :-})
>
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