Nuke Richmond

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Fri Jan 12 12:19:29 2001

  Whew...sorry Richard, there's just so much flame bait in here I'm just
going to pretend I didn't read it. And I'm not even a Linux fanatic.

    -Dave McGuire

On January 12, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> All these complaints about how things are won't fix a thing!
>
> If the LINUX community were interested in providing a service, that is, a
> service for anyone other than themselves, they'd have done the up-to-now
> missing 90% of the work and cleaned up and documented their software.
> Instead, you have a terrible mess of code with comments that hve been
> irrelevant and incorrect for the last 25 revisions, yet nobody's been
> willing to delete them. Generally, design and coding is about 2% of the
> job, debugging is another 3%, cleanup is about 5% and thorough and accurate
> documentation is about 90.
>
> >From what I've seen so far, the LINUX community, though well-intentioned,
> has done little to provide tools useable by the masses.
>
> Instead of lighting that "one candle" they'd rather personalize their
> frustration, resulting, BTW, from their own lack of application effort,
> targeting Bill Gates, whose policies are really no different from those of
> any corporate leader. They're supposed to outdo the competition, trip them
> up, confound their efforts to acquire market share, and just generally try
> to do them in. Gates and Co have done well. What's more, for every LINUX
> user who's even remotely satisfied with what he has, there are thousands of
> Windows-users out there who love their OS. One difference, however, is that
> they (the Windows users) don't have to spend their lives stroking the OS
> just to keep it alive.
>
> Dick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Tinker" <jtinker_at_coin.org>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Nuke Richmond
>
>
> > "W.B.(Wim) Hofman" wrote:
> >
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Can you expect to say to a housewife : This is a Linux cd. Install it on
> > > this computer and I expect you to have looked at these Internet sites by
> > > tomorrow morning? It would have to be some housewife!! Linux needs far
> to
> > > much work still to make it fit for the masses.
> > >
> > > Wim
> >
> > Don't forget the opportunity lost due to M$ predations. Gates didn't
> invent
> > software. He pulled the rug out from under a lot of good effort, using
> > everyone else's work, but trying to protect his own. He poked his finger
> in
> > the eye of standards wherever possible. Standard layers will be the
> foundation
> > of future system elaboration. The fundamental contradiction Gates had to
> get
> > around, was that between "information age" and "proprietory software". It
> is
> > the "rising tide lifts all boats" problem. What is the value of wealth,
> unless
> > you are richer than the next guy? If everybody is rich, who will pick up
> the
> > garbage? When people started passing around copies of his BASIC, Gates
> > realized the problem, and the solution.
> >
> > -- John Tinker
> >
> >
> >
Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 12:19:29 GMT