From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 19:40:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C213A37B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 19:40:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB83eWx18746; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 04:40:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <008101c17f9a$1a4a4290$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Mike Meyer" , References: <0112071641320B.01380@stinky.akitanet.co.uk><000b01c17f42$c23ab140$0a00000a@atkielski.com><3C110351.4748B559@duth.gr><005001c17f6c$e60c0ef0$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15377.17350.796336.801464@guru.mired.org><006901c17f70$19a2f820$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15377.18218.830731.410656@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 04:40:32 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike writes: > This assumption is false. The dominant system > will be the best-marketed one that meets the > customers requirements, which is not the same > thing as the one that best meets the customers > requirements. Point taken. But I have previously explained that "good enough" is all that is ever required, by definition. So a system that meets the customers' requirements is ... a system that meets the customers' requirements--and beyond that, the rest is irrelevant (because it is not required). > In either case, you don't know whether it is > the rational choice for any particular use until > you know the requirements of that case. As a group, people do not tend to make irrational choices. > No, but they invalidate your religiously pushing > of the same solution for all uses in those two > environments. I have no religion in IT. But agnostics such as myself are rare. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message