<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jim Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:volunteer.jim@gmail.com">volunteer.jim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, James Mckenzie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net" target="_blank">jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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mitcoes <<a href="mailto:wineforum-user@winehq.org" target="_blank">wineforum-user@winehq.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>Sent: Aug 26, 2010 2:53 AM<br>
<div>>To: <a href="mailto:wine-users@winehq.org" target="_blank">wine-users@winehq.org</a><br>
</div>>Subject: [Wine] Wine distro with MS WOS look and feel<br>
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>i think that if a distribution with MS WOS XP and 7 look and feel based on Gnome and Ubuntu or debian is released a lot of people would migrate.<br>
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</div>Take a look at ReactOS. Realize that this is a nest of available lawsuit material, and that the wizzards in Redmond have a fleet of lawyers and such looking out for their interests. Look and feel lawsuits are not reliable for presedence but they do give enough for those folks to target anyone that creates a Windows7ese like interface.<br>
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James McKenzie<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br></div></div>Personally, I don't want my Linux to look like Windoze. As for current desktops, point & click is point & click. If the desktop has to look and feel like Windoze to convince someone to switch to Linux, I don't want them.<br>
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<br>Jim<br>
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