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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.catalog.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. | jamesd@netcom.com