If a hardware vandor release a driver that was binary only and only worked with redhat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5 on intel, nobody would stop bitching. Most users would still pester their tech support, spoof their polls, and badmouth them on slashdot. However, if the majority of linux users had the same binary only mentality of windows users they might be satisfied. Hardware vendors would be able to placate the community with shoddy binaries just like they do with the windows community.
Lowering the standards for linux users will lower the standards for linux software.
When the world runs out of silicon you'll wish you had marbles under you eyebrows. If you want to be prepared during the new millenium you better start stockpiling high tech materials NOW. Silicon, carbon fiber, etc. You never know when we will run out.
> Linux has to lose the elitism and make an idiot > proof installer if it ever hopes to displace > Microsoft.
Why do you want to make it easy for idiots to use linux? Idiots will suck the life force out of the linux movement.
Seriously though, the only advantages to having a large user base are (1) hardware support and (2) games. And I think those problems are being helped more by insane ipos than by a large pool of resident idiots.
What do *you* want that a large user population can give you?
> VB sucks big time as a language, but the means > for even a mediocre programmer to wrap his/her > programs in something that *looks* good, and for > the good coder to wrap those nice algorithms in > a selling package is what keeps windoze going.
Whoa! Think about what you're advocating. Do we really want VB drones swarming to linux? Why on earth would we want mediocre code in a pretty package? Discourage prettiness and keep mediocrity at bay!
Not the webserver, but the people and their behaviors. I'm posting this early Tuesday but the article is from Saturday. I'm guessing nobody will read this, much less moderate it. Why would anyone read a stale thread like this one when you can rant about the Caldera Settlement or those wacky Uruguyans instead? Maybe you just want to listen to the mad raving of a demented individual such as myself. If you are a moderator and have read this much of my post already, why not moderate me? Up or down, it doesn't matter. Just acknowledge me, damn it! Omigod, I left my telephone in the oven. Gotta go.
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If a hardware vandor release a driver that was binary only and only worked with redhat 6.0 kernel 2.2.5 on intel, nobody would stop bitching. Most users would still pester their tech support, spoof their polls, and badmouth them on slashdot. However, if the majority of linux users had the same binary only mentality of windows users they might be satisfied. Hardware vendors would be able to placate the community with shoddy binaries just like they do with the windows community.
Lowering the standards for linux users will lower the standards for linux software.
Ryan Salsbury
When the world runs out of silicon you'll wish you had marbles under you eyebrows. If you want to be prepared during the new millenium you better start stockpiling high tech materials NOW. Silicon, carbon fiber, etc. You never know when we will run out.
Ryan
> Linux has to lose the elitism and make an idiot
> proof installer if it ever hopes to displace
> Microsoft.
Why do you want to make it easy for idiots to use linux? Idiots will suck the life force out of the linux movement.
Seriously though, the only advantages to having a large user base are (1) hardware support and (2) games. And I think those problems are being helped more by insane ipos than by a large pool of resident idiots.
What do *you* want that a large user population can give you?
Ryan Salsbury
> VB sucks big time as a language, but the means
> for even a mediocre programmer to wrap his/her
> programs in something that *looks* good, and for
> the good coder to wrap those nice algorithms in
> a selling package is what keeps windoze going.
Whoa! Think about what you're advocating. Do we really want VB drones swarming to linux? Why on earth would we want mediocre code in a pretty package? Discourage prettiness and keep mediocrity at bay!
Ryan
The spark gap transmitter has been stolen!
Prolific posting provides points.
I'm a meta-karma-whore. Mark me as off-topic and score big in meta-mod.
Am I doing a bad thing by manipulating the slashdot system? Perhaps I should be less obvious. Woo! woo!
- smurfle the illiterate.
Not the webserver, but the people and their behaviors. I'm posting this early Tuesday but the article is from Saturday. I'm guessing nobody will read this, much less moderate it. Why would anyone read a stale thread like this one when you can rant about the Caldera Settlement or those wacky Uruguyans instead? Maybe you just want to listen to the mad raving of a demented individual such as myself. If you are a moderator and have read this much of my post already, why not moderate me? Up or down, it doesn't matter. Just acknowledge me, damn it! Omigod, I left my telephone in the oven. Gotta go.
- The enigmatic smurfle.