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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 7 Apr 1997 06:01:30 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable David Fox
wrote on 07 Apr (in article <y5alo6v5zxn.fsf@graphics.cat.nyu.edu>):
=Complaining about ignorant users is the lamest sort of denial of the
=failure of software designers to produce usable systems. There is no
=important task for a user of word processing software to do except to
=process words. For it to require anything else of them is a failure
=of the program's designer.
Just about as much truth:
Complaining about poorly designed software is the lamest
sort of excuse found by ignorant users.
-mi
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