Pierre Jarillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Le Mardi 17 Juin 2003 11:57, Guillaume Cottenceau a �crit :
> 
> > I still fail to see why people start "installing software" to see
> > installed packages.. Typical scenario is to start the given
> > program for a given task, isn't it? I launche "installing
> > software" when I want to install software..
> 
> You are a developper, and your brain doesn't work as the brain of a 
> single user. During 22 years I had to experiment this.

Well we always are the newbie of someone else, isn't it?

> For example, 3 years were necessary to find the good sentence for a question
> which was not ambiguous in every case.

Wow, congratulations :)).

> It is really difficult to think like a newbie. IMHO you have not see a true 
> newbie for a while. Thanks to ABUL http://abul.org/  I have still some 

Well my parents use Linux and I'm not sure they can't be
considered "beginners" at the most.

> contacts with newbies and sometimes I feel a lack of patience with them !
> But newbies are our new users and we have to take care of them.
> 
> Ask for some people in the street to test Mandrake 9.1. Experience this.
> Sure you'll be surprised.

Well isn't it marketing/commercial people's job? Don't forget I'm
a techie.

-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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