[juneau-lug] Re: Interesting read from /.

There's a good follow-up to this story here:  
http://www.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=04/03/01/1453218


Jason

On Monday 01 March 2004 09:52 am, Kevin Miller wrote:
> I can relate to that.  One of the reasons I think that Novell might breathe
> some fresh air into the works - despite their tragic loss of market share
> to MS, they come from a customer driven point of view and understand the
> importance of good docs, and limited "surprises" during an install.
> Hopefully it'll raise the bar a bit.  On the other hand, most *nix distros
> will continue to be maintained by geeks who will be slow to really focus on
> the interface rather than back end functionality.  Can't blame 'em, and
> many are just doing it for 'glory' so I'm hesitant to look a gift horse in
> the mouth.
>
> Over time I expect some maturity to happen, as more large companies
> underwrite the critical components of the system like printing, allowing
> the programmers to go the extra mile in producing top quaility systems. 
> But it's gonna take some time.  And if it doesn't happen, well, I'm gonna
> retire sooner or later and can then focus on more crucial matters like
> where are the cohos hitting best?
>
> S'later...
>
> ...Kevin

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