Nethack 3.4.3 [PSARC/2008/172 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[Shawn Walker]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:09 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> Joseph Kowalski wrote:
>  > Linux familiarity trumps our internal views about "bin" semantics.
>
>
>  Speaking of Linux Distro Hell...
>
>     ... *which* linux are you trying to be familiar with?
>
>  That's the nice thing about linux distros, you can always fine one
>  to use as an example to prove whatever point you are trying to make.
>
>  The key point here is "on linux, it is generally extremely easy
>  to find, get and use almost anything that is being developed
>  in the FOSS world, and on Solaris, it isn't."
>
>  We're not trying to emulate any one distro, but to enable this
>  "I wanted <foo>, so I went and got it and now I'm using it; wow
>  that was easy" customer reaction.
>
>  Lets not get lost in the weeds...

I think you hit on my personal view in all of this John.

In trying to become make the system more accessible to other groups of
users, we shouldn't lose the ability to improve upon what others have
done. If we're forever stuck with certain decisions on the basis of
familiarity, how can we innovate compared to them?

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben