Re: [lojban] [WWWW] Big update!

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

pycyn@aol.com scripsit:

> But they are the last people -- or ought tpo be -- to hold the users in 
> contempt, for it there were no users, if people refused to buy their stuff or 
> use it, thew whole would collapse.

Indeed.

> 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).

> Presumably he can do what he wants to do -- why not want to reach as many 
> people as possible as well as possible, especially in a broadcasting 
> advertisement job?  

Too many of us have grown weary of constant adaptation to the latest
oversold piece of junk.

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