On 13-Dec-07, at 10:22 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
When I read that, it sounded a lot to me like saying "if you're not a
skilled medical practitioner, you don't deserve decent health care."
Seems to me one of the better aspects of our society is our ability
to allow specialists to provide good services to non-specialists (or
at least those who can afford to pay for it).
Yes -- when those specialists are paid.
Absolutely. You guys deserve to get paid for what you do (insofar as
there are enough people willing to pay you for what you do), nor are
you obligated to tailor the operating system for any particular class
of user. I don't think either of those mean that non-technical
people deserve bad software, it just means they have to find someone
who is both a good programmer and has a desire to make simpler
interfaces for money. That programmer will probably build on top of
your work. Hopefully that'll all fall into place some time in the
not-too-distant future.
