begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:26:35AM -0700: > > On Sat, March 29, 2008 1:14 am, SJS wrote: > > > Appeals to authority, especially absent authority, just don't sit well. > > If they're an authority, they can argue with me, and if there's a good > > reason they're an authority, they'll probably convince me. > > > > How does my appeal to Unix authority have less weight than DB's appeal to > M$ authority?
It doesn't. Of course, I don't consider M$ an authority on anything other than what people can be persuaded to buy. Appeals to their authority for "usable user-interface guidelines" are laughable, largely in part because part of the reason I downloaded all those slackware disks all those years ago was *because* of those guidelines. I do, however, question that the assumptions that Ritchie, Thompson, & Co. worked under still apply today. We no longer use teletype systems... that changes the environment a lot. Plus, you really should be appealing to how Plan 9 does business, not UNIX. UNIX was _desgined_ to play spacewar. :) -- I've only run plan 9 once, but I had no need for its features. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
