Re: tlug: Re: Linux taking over the globe?

[John De Hoog <washi@example.com>]

tjhaslam <tjhaslam@example.com> wrote:

> Hence, when Chris Sekiya writes:
> 
> >I strongly disagree with oversimplifying linux tasks in an attempt to
> >reach a wider audience.
> 
> I wonder if we`re really talking about the same thing.  I think that Linux
> is attracting a wider although limited audience because it is understood as
> alternative to MS Windows and MS NT.  But the tasks that I and other people
> are trying to get done are not *Linux* tasks per se.  They`re  tasks that
> go along with using any computer, or any intranet, or even the Internet.  I
> think that certain basic and repetitive functions should be made simple as
> a matter of both safety and design.  I should not have to go the fusebox of
> my apartment to turn off or on a light.   I should not have to go out into
> a thunderstorm and pop the hood of my car to start the engine.  My ability
> to do both might show that I have insider knowledge--but for my own
> convenience, as as for others, I would still want an easier way to go about
> things.  That *easier way* to me would--or at least, could--be the result
> of good design and sound engineering.   Nothing to apologize for or be
> ashamed about.

Thanks for saying so incredibly well what I and a few thousand other
potential Linux users are thinking, exactly!
--
John De Hoog, Tokyo
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