From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 21:14:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D2A37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BE743E6A for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from there (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g764EqL15834 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:44:53 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Message-Id: <200208060414.g764EqL15834@tierzero.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is simplicity despised? WAS: What do we need in a FreeBSD desktop? Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:01:53 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <00d301c23504$9bbe0c60$0a01a8c0@mswolf> <200207311037.g6VAb5L68944@tierzero.apana.org.au> <20020731094751.A55417@constans.gldis.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020731094751.A55417@constans.gldis.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 I was intellectually offended by the response to my suggestion that there is a use for a simple instrument such as the text editor le. Apparently if it isn't comprehensive and complicated it is to be despised as a "toy". Does that mean that users of FreeBSD are to become elitist intellectual snobs, discarding on principle that which is easy to use and understand? There is a precept that I embrace, called KEEP IT SIMPLE - STUPID! Shouldn't we all use the simplest and easiest method to accomplish a task, not deliberately choose the complex "over-kill" alternative? -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message