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#! rnews 1493 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Xref: sserve comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x:574 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:2289 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.zeitgeist.net!usenet From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape - this is ridiculous Date: Mon, 19 Jun 95 18:52:06 PST Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19950619.7590460.10A81@contessa.phone.net> References: <1995Jun18.022947.20174@rhrk.uni-kl.de> <JWZ.95Jun19165655@abattoir.netscape.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: contessa.phone.net X-NewsReader: Amiga Yarn 3.9, 1995/05/09 10:42:03 In <JWZ.95Jun19165655@abattoir.netscape.com>, jwz@netscape.com (Jamie Zawinski) wrote: > And the Unix world needs more people like you full of righteous indignation > at the kind of crap they're expected to put up with (I'm completely serious.) Oh, we exist. But the market place tends to drown out people complaining about idiotic design decisions in favor of "what works to get the job done now." Part of the problem is that the Unix world got fragmented into vendor-specific ghettos very early. Software developers wind up spend time tweaking their code to work right on various different platforms, as each vendor creates value-added extensions to differentiate their product from others and grab market share. If I didn't know better, I'd think there was a lesson in there somewhere. <mike