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Re: [WWWW] Big update!
--- In lojban@y..., John Cowan <cowan@c...> wrote:
> pycyn@a... scripsit:
> > Further, they should be the last people
> > to put down the crap that users use, since they were the people who created
> > the crap in the first place and who have regularly failed to improve it in
> > the ways that they say it should be done.
>
> Not so. Windows and all its works are made by geeks who have sold themselves
> to marketeers. Windows is a Yugo at Cadillac prices. What is more, the Windows
> culture is a tyranny, which like all such is supported by the meekness of
> its victims. The Yugo failed because people felt more confident rejecting a
> piece-of-crap car; Windows has not yet failed because people were
> subject to FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).
Hosiannah and Amen!
Is it a mass hysteria or just a "whole" world's sheep instinct. It reminds me of other kinds of tyranny (also in my country!):
It really is fear, uncertainty, doubt - and kind of mental laziness!
mu'omi'e .aulun.