From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Internal compiler error
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Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:02:39 GMT
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On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 13:24:17 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii"
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry if i am missing something, but I thought that the consumer base is
>> *the* reliable evidence of the ultimate quality of the product int he
>> long run.
>
>Evidently, it isn't, not in our age, anyway.  It looks like consumers
>don't mind bying a product that crashes several times a day...

Windows itself is stable.  It's just that running everything as root
is not secure; anyone can write an installer that messes up the system
DLLs (e.g. installing a new kernel like Netscape 4.x does).  Didn't
you bring this to my attention?

>> And please note that for the user the "quality" of a product does not mean
>> the technical quality, but how user friendly it is.
>
>That's an interesting notion of quality.  User-friendliness is one of
>the factors, but it surely isn't the only one, nor is it the most
>important one.

It's the only one in the so-called "Grandma test," which rates how
easy it is for computer newbies to perform tasks without hassle.

>> They expect that the secretary would prefer a technically superior linux
>> over windoze and then they expect her to do her word processing in ..VI !
>
>I don't know who expects that from secretaries.  There are true word
>processors for Linux (StarOffice, for one).

Or better yet, AbiWord (looks so much like MS Word it makes you wonder
if AbiExcel is coming out soon).

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