Re: Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)
On Thursday 11 October 2001 17:14, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> Linux is a couple of steps behing in ease of use in comparison to
> windows. Windows is weak where linux is especially strong like
> stability and flexibility. Ms has billions of dollars to invest
> getting windows to be as good as Linux whereas the linux community
> has mostly its followers (of which there are plenty but not if ms
> gets to be as good as linux and win2k seems a step in the right
> direction) Being in this position, shouldn't we be investing our time
> and effort in improving the ease of use of linux rather than blaming
> ms for their faults which they are investing a lot of money trying to
> fix.
Unless M$ (sorry, force of habit) decides to suddenly become a loser,
your statement is bound to be a truism. They've had a decade's
headstart. Let's be relative. Minus a decade. Would you say that
Windows ca. 3.1 (early 90s) is really that much user-friendlier than
GNU/Linux/X/Gnome-or-KDE?
If people's demands about ease-of-use continue to rise, the only
user-friendly combination of hardware and computer is the one the says
"Mr. Smith, your letter to the editor is ready."
I'm not against user interface improvements. But I think it should stop
at the "Here's a typewriter/Braille encoder, now write" level. Give me
working speech recognition and synthesis, not another mouse trap.
--
Sir Isaac Newton:
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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