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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 16:02:39 GMT
>
> >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).

True, but irrelevant for the case in point: most users of Windows
don't know any better, and it does crash for them.  Which doesn't
prevent them from using Windows in the same wrong pattern (installing
software that overwrites system DLLs) time and again.

In other words, quality of a product (as seen by those users) is not
an obstacle to using that product.  QED.

> >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.

Grandmas are not the only users of PCs.  Like I said: it's one of the
factors, but not the most important one.