Thomas Gramstad wrote:
> Not at all. Better to give them safe, stable and simple tools,
> and encourage them to learn to use those tools.
But what if, like most, they don't *want* to learn? I can show you
about 350 of our 400 list-owners who believe they shouldn't need to
learn anything to run a list -- imagine how most people feel about email.
> For most people
> that implies a good GUI (dropdown menues help too), for example
> the MacIntosh platform; or more recently, products like
> OpenOffice, StarOffice and KDE.
Those UNIX and Linux UIs may seem good to you, but to most users,
they're impenetrable.
> Microsoft on the other hand,
> offers poor-to-mediocre GUIs, and unsafe, unstable and non-simple
> products.
But they *understand* Microsoft UIs, and things like StarOffice and KDE
make no sense to them at all.
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