From: Spif <c642011@cclabs.missouri.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 95 17:29:07 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: alt.religion.your.operating.system.sucks
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On Sun, 29 Jan 1995, James A. Donald wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Jan 1995, Joe Turner wrote:
> > Additionally, I don't know of too many operating 
> > systems where the source code is floating around.  I mean so what if 
> > it doesn't come with a pretty shrink wrapped package and a thick 
> > getting-started, if you have a question just go find the source code.  
> > Geez.  
> 
> There are some communities of software developers that have 
> this strange belief that program behavior should conform to user
> expectations instead of the user conforming to the program
> behavior.
> 
> 
> Your other remarks are rational, relevant, appropriate, and correct,
> but this remark illustrates magnificently why unix is
> still user hostile after all these years.

UNIX?  user hostile?  where have you been lately?  ever hear of X 
windows?  Indigo Magic Desktop?  these and zillions of other innovations 
have made UNIX more user-friendly than any other operating system I have 
used (which includes DOS, Windows, OS/2, and NeXTstep, among others).  
The only real barrier left to UNIX becoming the OS of choice is 
commercial app support (things like word processors and etc. becoming 
readily available and inexpensive).

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