JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > find alternate routes to introduce people to Project Independence,
> > since I won't recommend a distribution that I can't use myself.
> Can you read? Then reread my previous posts and you will see how much
> I hate having vital software available only for X because I think in
> what happens when X doesn't work.
Yes. But my point is that I use a distribution because it's a whole
lot easier than collecting and compiling all the programs I use. If a
distribution stopped shipping lots of stuff that I use, I would switch
to something that had the applications I need. And I'd stop
recommending my ex-distribution to people because I'd no longer be
using it and would no longer have enough information about the
distribution to support it.
> But I don't accept having a thousand defenseless beginners getting a
> headache after seeing three dozens of mail clients (bot console and
> X) and two hundred editors jsut because a couple hardcore Unixers
> complained loudly about the lack a program they are the only users
> and could have downloaded in seconds.
I have trouble with the notion that new users will be caused
irreparable harm by including programs on the CD they won't
immediately use. If they are that fragile, they should stop using the
internet, because there are billions of pages that they'll never
care about.
If you don't want people to be confused, perhaps you should lobby from
their inclusion in the default workstation install. (Again,
neglecting the minor fact that there are users for whom that change
would make the workstation install useless.) But taking them off the
CD is is a bad idea, because it's a sure way to upset the people
your most important userbase: the people who use your distribution,
upgrade with your distribution, and recommend your distribution to
others.
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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