On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:23 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:58:57 -0700 Dave Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > < "ELX WELCOME'S YOU" > > > > > > BFD! If I had a nickel for every one of my typos, I'd be retired by > > > now. > > > > If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If you > > can't proofread, how good are you at testing your software > > (corporately > speaking, obviously individual people may be > > better at one or the other). > > > > I am admittedly too much the perfectionist, so the world seems too full > > of mediocrity to me. > > Yes, you are. I didn't find any typos in Mandrake or Caldera distros that > failed to install on my PC or in Redhat distros that had a flaky > compiler/glibc environment for everyone's PC, but I'm too picky to use > them any more. > > Fortunately for some of us who are less picky, elx does work rather well. > It's also a -pre1 release, so the 1.0 release may be even better. > > You're probably better off with Debian, where a package isn't good enough > to be accepted into stable unless it's been running on every PC > architecture (including those that none of us ever plan to use) for a long > time. By then, the spelling has also improved most likely. By then, elx > may have corrected a few piddling typos come to think of it, and if their > responses on the elx forum are any indication, they will have corrected a > few more worthwhile things than bledding typos. > > I repeat: BFD!
I am in agreement with Dave. Typo's are unacceptable. It truely shows how much 'true' effort was put into the thing. I see more and more companies putting things out with typo's in them, it's pathetic. If your bank issued your checks with a typo, would it be acceptable? If your employer made a typo on your name on your paycheck, would it be acceptable? If you put up the URL to your web site with a typo, would it be acceptable? I think not. I may be picky too, but I feel that if a company can't take the time to check spelling then it's not worth my time to use it. Could it be that some of the problems that I have read about with elx could be typo problems in the code? Hmmm,. BFD? Hmmmm. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
