From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Jun 27 21:19:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18521524A for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25675; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:19:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd025659; Sun Jun 27 21:19:43 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25049; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:19:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199906280419.VAA25049@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: [Re: My FreeBSD Experience ] To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:19:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jesus.monroy@usa.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <67710.930334288@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 25, 99 11:11:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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