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| DATE | 2005-04-05 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] mubling under my breadth
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Ruben I Safir - Secretary NYLXS wrote:
> Here is a typical 30 minutes of my day
One thing that's important to remember (I guess) is that the party most
responsible for this is CarePoint. If this were a Perl/MySQL app, it
would almost certainly be just as much a piece of shit as the Windows
version is, and you'd have just as much _no access to the code_ to fix
it or have it fixed.
As we're now getting to be quite successful in getting companies off the
Microsoft crack, we need to refocus our efforts somewhat. The VAR/ISV
incompetents are coming to Linux, and they're bringing their garbage
apps and stupidity with them. There's nothing about Linux that forces
you to be a competent designer or developer. (as much of the code
available at SourceForge proves) Windows users have proved they'll
accept and pay good money for what amounts to a loaded diaper. If we
have any hope of educating the general public to demand better, we'd
better start drilling that into people now, while we have reasonably
not-shitty systems dominating our userbase to point at as examples.
Otherwise at some point, you'll have exactly what exists in the Windows
world today, the systems run by the relatively few of us who know what
we're doing will be reasonably reliable, virus and crappy-app free, and
everyone else will be running systems that crash and burn constantly so
much that you stop noticing it. Don't bother at that point trying to
explain to a user that Linux is a very good kernel and it's their apps
that suck. Disgusted users tar their whole system with the same brush.
- Ron
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