On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Cian Brennan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:24:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
[snipzorz] > > It is exactly your attitude that has ruined the computer industry. > > > > > > You have an odd definition of professional, and the kind of attitude that > sounds like you haven't actually worked in the computer industry in a while. > Generally, the computer industry is about providing services to end users. And > things like easy updates, specialisation of labour and all of that kind of > stuff have made us an awful lot better at taht than 'old school UNIX' ever > was. > > But hey, if you want to pretend we all still live in the early 90s, feel free. > I hope it works out well for you. > > OpenBSD's a wonderful OS, but it's lack of easy upgradability is a > *disadvantage, not something to be proud of. And yes, there are good > reasons why it doesn't exist, the linuxes do have massively more > man power, and developers time *is* probably better spent on new features, > rather than on packaging. Acting smug about your failings just makes you look > like silly, however. > I think you're missing the point; marco was talking about the dumbing down of what's considered acceptible for being called a "professional"; in this case, mostly the fact that once you start presenting system administration as a series of buttons to push, you get button-pushing monkeys, not people who solve problems.
