On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, lee wrote:
Bill Oliver vendor@billoblog.com writes:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, lee wrote:
[snip] If she had known that she didn`t need to throw in this or that, wouldn`t that be easier for everyone?
Not necessarily. Sometimes neither that absent-minded aunt nor the avaricious nephew know what is most pleasing until it's taken out and played with.
That can be an important thing to do. It requires listening to the users and informing and preparing them beforehand, and you have to have something available to fall back to, or a fix, in case the new toy doesn`t work out. If you leave them suddenly stranded like Debian did, they will leave you behind.
Much of what we consider very important today was considered stupid when it first came out.
Like?
Well, the automobile, aircraft, and personal computer immediately come to mind.
billo