> > Making it easy to install and maintain lowers the > > bar, ups the sales by > > Sun in both hardware and software - all benefit from > > this. Microsoft > > didn't grab a huge marketshare because of Bills > > sparkling personality - > > I can bloody well assure you of that! > > If the bar needs to be lowered, then the person in question wasn't > meant to be in IT or in CS. We have pah-lenty of such "experts" > floating around. They should go do something else, there are also > pah-lenty of other well paid jobs in other fields. For example, car > body repair. They make tons of money.
Plenty but comes unwilling to pay the huge amount - IT is a cost centre, it generates no money directly for the company. > In computer science, "lowering the bar" is also known as regression. > And let me remind you my friend, Solaris wouldn't be what it is today > if the bar had been lowered. Luckily for all of us and tons of > customers. Yes, but at the same time, there needs to be 'new blood' - lowering the bar doesn't mean dumbing it down to the point of having a moron in charge, but if it means it allows people to gently ease into it, then I say 'lower the bar'. > > Yes, and Sun and Ellison have been hammering on the > > same garbage for 10+ > > years and hasnn't eventuated into anything. > > Don't lose focus. It's the concept that's important. The problem lies > with the majority. > > Historia est magistra vitae - "history is the teacher of life" - and > history teaches us that majority is stupid. If humanity were left to > majority, we would still be living somewhere in the stone age. It's > the individuals that have historically always pushed the whole of > Humanity forward, which, let us not forget, kicked, screamed, and even > hanged and burned people at stakes for trying to usher them into a new > age of mankind. > > So it looks like the majority will have to be dragged into a new > computing age once again. Kicking and screaming, as usual. Why am I > not surprised? > > > Again, this is the same garbage spewed by Sun and > > Ellison for 10+ years, > > and again, nothing has happened. People are still > > running PC's, > > Of course they are. Most of the people on this planet are computer > illiterate, and actually want nothing to do with a computer. But they > sure expect a lot from one! Because people like me don't want to be beholden to a 'service provider' who has me by the balls by virtue of all my files being on their computer. I like the idea of owning my own storage, my own computer - I'm ultimately the architect and creator of my own computing experience. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
