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I just *had* to comment.



On Wednesday 02 June 2004 9:28 am, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:04, miah wrote:
> > This is the stupidest thing.. I don't know why anybody would waste
> > their time with it.
>
> Can you qualify why exactly this is "the stupidest thing"?  I can see
> pros and cons to the project, but to just pronounce it "stupid" out of
> hand seems rather reactionary.  Admittedly, it's a little unnerving to
> think of having something that close to windows behind the scenes, but
> from glancing at the project web page, it sounds like they are trying to
> away with a lot of the things that make the Windows registry bad.

I thought I did a pretty good job of expressing my feelings in the comment I 
posted on the project's website.

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