From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 27 03:06:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA08133 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 03:06:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.keyworld.net (mail.keyworld.net [194.21.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA08094 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 03:06:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from psycho@keyworld.net) Received: from chrism (ppp80.keyworld.net [194.21.164.143]) by mail.keyworld.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA02047; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:01:51 +0100 Message-Id: <199803271101.MAA02047@mail.keyworld.net> From: "Christopher Martin at Home" To: "Sue Blake" , "james huckle" Cc: "'FreeBSD Newbie Submission'" Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 12:05:29 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Is there a lobby group of users out there to ensure certain basic standards are adhered to? I think this is a quality issue. ISO defines quality as suitability for the job. You dinna buy a Rolls Royce for delivering furniture. Same with software. Unfortunately, I thnk software quality has been degrading through poor programming discipline and sheer uunscrupulous marketing and business practices resulting in closed system engineering. I am all in favour of a good idea, but I find extra mouse clicks a real pain... Shall we form a lobby group? Chris ---------- > From: Sue Blake > To: james huckle > Cc: 'FreeBSD Newbie Submission' > Subject: Re: FW: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] > Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 4:56 PM > > On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 03:23:45PM -0000, james huckle wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm get a little sick of all this MS bashing. Sure, the product IMHO > > usually sucks and is bug ridden but people buy it and people have to > > support it. People like pretty windows to type into and will use these > > products at the expense of resilience. > > I don't think the thrust of these software complaints is necessarily > anti-microsoft only. Our issue is the particular software and what it does. > > Claris, for example, produces software which blatently disregards standards > and encourages their customers to believe they're doing the right thing. > I find this approach reprehensible, no matter which company does it. > I don't like paying any software company to make me look a fool. > Many different companies have tried. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > find / -name "*.conf" |more > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message