On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Chen Shapira wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Last week we had a nice discussion about bloatware, emacs and word.
>
> This week I found an interesting article about it:
> http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$308
I agrre with some of his arguments, and disagree with others I'll leave
that for each interested reader in this list.
Note that one of his arguments regarding "lite" programs does not apply
that well to "linux" programs:
When you start marketing your "lite" product, and you
tell people, "hey, it's lite, only 1MB," they tend to be
very happy, then they ask you if it has their crucial
feature, and it doesn't, so they don't buy your
product.
The thing is, that with a typical linux distro you get many of those
"lite" programs. Usually they are even resonably configured. Therefore you
don't need to make much effort to obtain them.
You have to learn how to use them. But the same can be said about
"advanced" features of a bloated software.
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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