On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Seth Arnold wrote: >On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 04:30:37PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote: >> I think you are misconstruing what I was saying. I know that UNIX is >> waaay too difficult for your mom/receptionist/CEO to use. > >As an aside, every time anyone makes this claim, I like to point out >that the original use of Unix[1] was actually secretaries writing >documents. I hope that we, as a species, haven't lost our adaptability >to new techniques, or even old techniques. :) I'm sure Apple would disagree that UNIX is waay to difficult for a mom/ receptionist/CEO to use. One of my little pet projects (www.k12ltsp.org) is to putting Linux desktops into schools. Our success rate is simply unbelievable. If I can get teachers to install, configure, and use Linux systems without hand-holding or technical support, it obviously can't be too difficult ;-) -Eric
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sun May 26 2002 - 11:40:09 PDT