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[Timothy Butler]

> This much is true. The trick is do find a Linux answer to Mac, not  
> some slavish copy. For example, I don't care how trivial it sounds,  
> having a mouse clipboard separate from any GUI clipboard is critical  
> to how I work. It's a primary reason I reject Mac.

	I think you explained that before, but would you explain again, Ed? I  
can't remember what precisely you mean there. Particularly since mouse  
and GUI really aren't distinct, typically.

> I realize I can run the X server on Mac and get it to work for X- 
> based apps, but that's not Mac, that's a hack, a failure to port  
> from X to Cocoa.

	I think that's roughly equivalent to, say, running both Qt and GTK  
apps... :-)

	-Tim


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