begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:37:19PM -0800: [snip] > I think you are still missing the point. Whether the PHB is an idiot or > not, we want him to LIKE LINUX!
I don't. I want him to *respect* Linux (and I want Linux to be deserving of that respect), but I'm okay if (s)he personally doesn't want to use it. I'm especially okay with it if that means the PHB doesn't demand that Linux gets dumbed down to their level. We need to be VERY careful when we cater to idiots that we also don't alienate the non-idiots. Many of us jumped on the Linux bandwagon not because it was 'free', but because it allowed us to Get Work Done. > So if he wants an Access-alike, I say we > give it to him. That's a lot of work to give something to someone who probably won't appreciate it. > Ideally we give him something better than Access and > that it be Free. I can't stand Access. It sucks. The problem is that > it's a bad and non-Free implementation of a not so bad idea. The one piece of Access that seems useful is the database structure visualization tool. And there's no real need for that to be tied to any one particular database... it's presumably a suitable semester project for a CS major. I would be suprised if there weren't a couple of TCL/TK programs that do just that out there somewhere. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
