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L. Ross Raszewski <lraszewski@loyola.edu> wrote:
>Further, those applications which allow themselves to be
>skinned don't leave it to the *content* to choose a facade (I think
>facade is a better word than skin, myself), but to the user;

As sympathetic as I am to the anti-skinning position, I
have to agree with Kodrik that this misses the point about
it being a single apparent program. Infocom did not sell
"a portable VM application which you could run on an interpreter
of your choosing"; they sold a complete package. If they
were still around today, and had strong aesthetic opinions
about the appearance of a given game, I'm sure they would
do something--whether it be to the terp or through the
virtual machine I don't know.

SeanB
