"[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ge8et4-1rt.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Verily I say unto thee, that jim spake thusly:
>
>> When you give an untrained person ANYTHING, they can misuse it and
>> harm themselves and/or others. Such is the case with automobiles,
>> knives, guns, rocks, scissors, play dough, tiny magnets, pillows and
>> on and on.....
>>
>> The problem is that some people think that end user ignorance can be
>> coded around (i.e. UAC). That, somehow, programmers can make a
>> system that stupid users and malicious crimminals cannot destroy.
>> That, my friends, is a fantasy of the highest order.
>
> Pretty much what I've been saying for years. Computers are non-trivial
> machines that /require/ training to use properly. It's not a popular
> position, but it is nonetheless true.
>
> The likes of Gates and Jobs tried to commoditise PC's into domestic
> appliances that could be operated by monkeys. Well they got it /half/
> right ... PCs /are/ being operated by monkeys, but unfortunately PCs
> are now more complex than ever (but in different ways than before).
>
> The solution? Train the monkeys ... at gunpoint if necessary. Or ban
> them from ever touching computers, upon penalty of death.
>
> Banning Windows would also be useful, it would certainly force the
> monkeys to learn how to do things properly, with GNU/Linux.
The easiest road to Linux is Open Data Format legislation.
Make it easy to move a person's data from any app and any OS to any other
app on any other OS that chooses to support or transfer data from the old
data format and you've got yourself a revolution.
jim
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