On 13/11/06 23:53 +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > On 13/Nov/2006, at 9:05 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > >For examples of applications which have programmers working on > >features > >rather than performance, see MS Windows, MS Office, Open Office, > >GNOME. > > All darned good projects, I say. You can work your bottom off, > mopping up performance, but that's not what users pay for. Users pay > for features, plain and simple. It's only recently that Apple's taken
May I refer you to the excellent talk on 'Why Userspace Sucks', from the Ottawa Linux Symposium?[0, 1] Of course, the problem with features is excarbated by the complexity added by said features, which those users do not pay the price for. That price is paid for by those who run computers securely, ISPs, ESPs, fraud victims, etc. Users pay the price in buying newer hardware, in time spent while software initialises, in buggier software, anti-virus software, bandwidth used by spam and viruses, ... Devdas Bhagat [0] http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf [1] http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv2.pdf
