Re: Getting envolved

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To: Otto Moerbeek <otto@...>
Cc: <misc@...>, Mathieu Stumpf <psychoslave@...>, Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@...>
Date: Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 12:11 pm

> > If you like the current way it works, you should be able to continue

I disagree.

A complex interface implies a lot of code. a lot of code
leads to unreliablity, either through bugs or detracting valuable
developer time from more important things

A simple interface (well designed) imples less code, which leads
to reliability.

Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple
interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows,
and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly
for everything.

-Bob

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Getting envolved, Mathieu Stumpf, (Wed Dec 12, 1:31 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor, (Wed Dec 12, 3:00 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Ted Unangst, (Wed Dec 12, 3:22 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Mathieu Stumpf, (Thu Dec 13, 3:44 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Ulf, (Thu Dec 13, 6:07 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Otto Moerbeek, (Thu Dec 13, 4:40 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Douglas A. Tutty, (Fri Dec 14, 12:10 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Joe, (Thu Dec 13, 2:15 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Bob Beck, (Thu Dec 13, 12:11 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Jeremy Huiskamp, (Thu Dec 13, 10:39 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Ted Unangst, (Fri Dec 14, 1:57 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Daniel Ouellet, (Thu Dec 13, 11:28 pm)
Re: Getting envolved , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Dec 13, 11:22 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Douglas A. Tutty, (Fri Dec 14, 12:26 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Bob Beck, (Fri Dec 14, 1:28 pm)
Re: Getting envolved , Jeremy Huiskamp, (Thu Dec 13, 11:38 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Daniel Ouellet, (Thu Dec 13, 3:51 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Nick Holland, (Thu Dec 13, 8:50 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Daniel Ouellet, (Thu Dec 13, 10:31 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Mathieu Stumpf, (Thu Dec 13, 1:12 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Artur Grabowski, (Fri Dec 14, 5:14 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Joshua Smith, (Fri Dec 14, 9:08 am)
Re: Getting envolved, Bob Beck, (Thu Dec 13, 2:15 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Jason Beaudoin, (Thu Dec 13, 12:34 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Bob Beck, (Wed Dec 12, 2:43 pm)
Re: Getting envolved, Marco Peereboom, (Wed Dec 12, 2:21 pm)