Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:19:42 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jesus.monroy@usa.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: My FreeBSD Experience ] Message-ID: <199906280419.VAA25049@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <67710.930334288@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 25, 99 11:11:28 am
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> > It is possible to take his ability to make pilot errors away from > > him, and avoid this type of complaint altogether. It's called > > "usability engineering". > > No, that's called "Windows." You've obviously never installed a third party driver under Windows. Usability engineering means that after you are done doing it, the resulting code is usable. I don't call a driver that depends on a specific version of a system component that's "upgraded" every time something demands you install the latest version of Internet Explorer particularly usable. There is a difference between taking away options, and taking away useless options. For example, it should be impossible to install x86 FreeBSD without writing a DOS partition table and a DOS-capable MBR, and it should be impossible to install Alpha FreeBSD without a similar DEC-UNIX compatible record. That the tools permit something like that occuring at all is a commentary on the foibles of the tools. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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