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> From: Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 09:57:27 -0700
> 
>                                                          All of the 
> "improvements" to Emacs-21 (like the "fringes" and "tool-bar") that 
> are immediately obvious to anyone familiar with previous versions 
> appear to have been designed by an escapee from the Microsoft asylum.

Actually, the person who designed them never looked at a Microsoft OS
for inspiration (AFAIK, he didn't use any Windows system at all).

It's okay to dislike a feature, but why post derogatory remarks about
people who labored on coding them, and then gave the results out for
free?