6 May
2002
6 May
'02
10:47 a.m.
On Monday 06 May 2002 16:37, you wrote:
O My, i could make all manner of hay with that.
What's a bash? ... and what's mc? Would the
man on the street know that?
Or whats a mouse for that matter, some have problems
double vs single "click"
More non-point filler.
That may be true, but if you are sitting at computer
keyboard for the first
time in your life, how do you know what to do?
More of the same, the fellow at the touchscreen of a burger stand
can have problems, cant they.
Look at the keyboards at some places, and the hunt for the "no mayo"
button.
We dont come pottie trained either.
Any system can be precooked for an idiot, and my aged mother
runs linux.
She would been just as lost no matter the OS without some help
when she first sat down.
Now her best stories are how all here penpals machines crash
and trash themselves and email bugs and ...
All of which her machine is immune.
Maybe someday someone will write a DOSEMU that works
like DOS,
and a WINE that actually executes Windows App's.
These already exist, they are not "free" but i dont see you requiring
"free" as a crterion elsewhere.
do you demand that winblows run rt11 or MVS apps ?
With cygwin winblows can run some linux apps on the bare metal
with about the same success and bother as dosemu and wine
and this software comes free from the same community.
If you want better, they also are not "free" , but you dont demand a
double standard im sure.
That would go a long way to ending the MS monopoly on
user-friendly,
and make it possible for 3rd-party application developers to get up
some applicatons that really work.
This line could be based on false assertion.
our apps work fine thank you very much, are network transparent
and for most all we have the source code, anything we dont like
we can change, an utterly totaly superior enviroment to work in.
Or perhaps you mean that winblows apps do not "really work"
and without the source, well, better hope that there are enough
"customers" with your problem that they might bother with
a fix.
I credit
these two things for its success, no longer
did it have two most fierce deterrents to learning.
I think the learning is, in itself, a deterrent. I think what promotes the learning best is making the
system
such that one can do something one wants to do right out of the box
and then letting people learn what they have to along the way.
Most all the linux dist's ship with precooked office suites that
run with a click, and several at that, so another non point.
You seem a bright guy, but most of what you say seems to be
what some clueless idiot told you 4th hand rather than any
hands on, or so it seems to me.
Raymond