8 Jun
2018
8 Jun
'18
4:47 a.m.
On June 7, 2018 1:41:03 PM HST, Dominique Michel wrote:
Computer science et al people can sometimes be so completely different from other people
that an approach or software that "works for them" is pretty much useless to
anyone else. They (CS) may love diving into the technical documentation and spending 10
hours figuring out how to do something.
Ordinary people just want to do what they need to do and go on with the rest of their
lives! (Computers are just glorified screwdrivers, not lives.)
Most people would rather put their energy into other things besides making unnecessary
changes to how they do things. They'd rather put their energy into things like talking
with their friends or playing soccer or making music. ;)
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Le Tue, 5 Jun 2018 12:02:38 -0700 (PDT),
Len Ovens a écrit :
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, David Kastrup wrote:
>
[snips]
I would be very surprised if Microsoft feels in any way that their
name or reputation is a liability. Rather the opposite. Compared to
the huge number of people who use windows because that is what the
computer came with and they feel a mac is over priced and that there
is nothing else, the open source community doesn't even show in a
pie
chart big enough to add the label. Android is
huge, but only because
people "buy" it with the phone.
Most peoples just use the same system they have at work because they
are complete illiterate peoples which get sick when they read more
documentation than "To launch a software you must click on the
corresponding icon". And they know they can ask a colleague which can
fix it in case of trouble.