From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 30 21:34:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15414 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:34:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citycom.com (mail.citycom.com [207.171.207.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15408 for ; Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nordwick@citycom.com) Received: from yasmeen (38.28.61.219) by citycom.com with SMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:33:13 -0800 Message-ID: <015e01be1ceb$553fcf10$f73c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com> From: "Jason Nordwick" To: "Christopher S. Weimann" , Subject: Re: Frustrated with bsd Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 21:23:19 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >But if you make a system even an idiot can use then only an idiot is >going to want to use it. > This is untrue. Making something easy to use and decreasing functionality are seperate issues. By advocating this you allow the mass software industry to perpetuate their lies: that you need to build simplicity into a product from the beginning and that it cannot later be added; that when making a product for 90% of the market, you cannot add features that the other 10% would like. -jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message