> The software that brain surgeons use is highly graphical. > <http://www.5min.com/Video/114223642> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpGGL2pb2nc> > If it was text-only, it would be much less effective, and brain surgeons > would therefore be less trustworthy, not more. It is not the difficulty > of the software they use that leads you to trust brain surgeons, > mechanics, or lawyers; it is their training, experience, and support staff. >
That is software that brain surgeons use. It is not software that does a brain surgeon's job. The hospital cannot replace a brain surgeon with that software. > You are trying to make server administrators trustworthy by making > server software artificially difficult to use. This strategy would work > only if the server software market was uncompetitive, because it is a > strategy that severely retards the usefulness of the software. A > graphical interface could do a much better job of presenting and > manipulating things like directory information trees, network topology, > and resource use over time, than a text-only presentation ever will. > I may have been unclear here. I am not against GUI tools. I am against tools that empower untrained minions to seemingly perform work that demands a professional. Tools that help the professional perform his job, or even tools that make the profession itself more accessible, are welcome. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss