On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:55:59PM +0200, David Neary wrote: > Getting something to the stage "where my grandmother would use > it" is a proverbial way of describing making technology > accessible to a larger public. > > I am sure this was the sense in which Luis was talking when he > said he wanted something his mother could use. That is not the > reason things are simplified, but it is a soundbite describing > the general goal of opening things up to a larger public.
And it is, when it boils down to it, a cop out fluff answer. Which is Carol's point, that it was a non-answer, and that she expected a better answer, more from a technical perspective. Perhaps the assumption that making technology accessible to a larger, untrained public should be revisited. There wouldn't be spam if nobody bought from spammers. -Yosh _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
