Re: [NF] Is Choice Always Good?

2007-04-25 Thread Chet Gardiner
Oh, yes, choice is an awful thing: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/915.html Ted Roche wrote: An excellent essay on why the MS monoculture (One Microsoft Way) isn't always a bad thing: Microsoft offers the certainty of no choices. Choice isn't always good, and the open

Re: [NF] Is Choice Always Good?

2007-04-25 Thread Alan Bourke
He's right about that in a sense - the first time I installed Linux I had to figure out what distro, then after picking Mandrake I ended up without about 20 text editors for no apparent reason. Which is one reason why Ubuntu is proving so popular - it takes away the choice to some extent. --

Re: [NF] Is Choice Always Good?

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/25/07, Chet Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, yes, choice is an awful thing: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/915.html Very good! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [NF] Is Choice Always Good?

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/25/07, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is one reason why Ubuntu is proving so popular - it takes away the choice to some extent. It's an ugly, ugly process to decide on which one of each of the tools to include and exclude, I'm sure. But that is a good technique for a consumer

[NF] Is Choice Always Good?

2007-04-24 Thread Ted Roche
An excellent essay on why the MS monoculture (One Microsoft Way) isn't always a bad thing: Microsoft offers the certainty of no choices. Choice isn't always good, and the open source community sometimes offers far too many ways to skin the same cat, choices that are born more out of pride, ego or