From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 19:46:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 418CF37B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 19:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 84484 invoked by uid 100); 21 Nov 2001 03:46:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15355.9117.91882.40355@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:46:37 -0600 To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home pc use In-Reply-To: <31042019@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey types: > I think you're looking from your standpoint. But note that the > average user is also very badly educated about computers. When that > changes, software will get better than the current Microsoft junk. Unfortunately, that probably won't happen. Even people who are educated about computers and realize that it's junk keep on using it. That's because the cost of converting is so much higher than the benefit of converting. I mean - how many of people really care about being able to install new applications without having to reboot? Or find a crash to be more than a minor inconvenience? And so on ... http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message