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Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice
Date 2013-03-30 11:13 -0700
Message-ID <CD7C796A.18384%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References <CD7C541E.18369%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <kj787b$65k$1@news.albasani.net>

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On 3/30/13 10:44 AM, in article kj787b$65k$1@news.albasani.net, "Adam
Gansefoort" <nospam@nospam.eu> wrote:

> Snit wrote:
>> <http://www.linuxadvocates.com/2013/03/standardization-as-road-to-more-choic
>> e.html> OR <http://bit.ly/YmynS8>
>>    -----
>>    If you are reading this article from a Desktop Linux system take a
>>    minute and look at a few programs on your system ... Chances are
>>    you will find much inconsistency in the programs you look at. Even
>>    within single programs there is often a great deal of
>> inconsistency.
>> 
>>    Is this a problem? Many users say it is not; they believe they ³get
>>    used to² each program and speak of how it is not hard to figure out
>>    the multiple styles found on their systems. Even if they do not
>>    realize it, though, inconsistencies do lead to problems ­ they lead
>>    to reduced productivity and efficiency and increase in user errors.
>>    This is backed up by HCI/UI research, is accepted by pretty much
>>    every relevant expert, and such ideas have been expressed by the
>>    teams that produce KDE, Gnome, Ubuntu, FireFox, and many other open
>>    source projects. Having a distro that works as a unified system is
>>    important if you care about the work you do.
>>    -----
>> 
>> Much more at the link. This is directly from Dietrich Schmitz's Linux
>> Advocates site.
>> The author of the article
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Are you a schizofrenic Michael?

I was being a bit silly. Geez. Anyway, look forward to seeing if any of the
COLA herd read or comment on the post.

>> clearly has a good
>> understanding of user issues and the open source ecosystem.
>> 
>> Would love to hear what the COLA "advocates" think.
> 


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Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-30 08:34 -0700
  Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice "Adam Gansefoort" <nospam@nospam.eu> - 2013-03-30 18:44 +0100
    Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-30 11:13 -0700
      Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-03-30 22:39 +0100
        Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-30 15:35 -0700
    Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2013-04-01 10:27 -0500
      Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-01 13:08 -0700
        Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-04-01 16:15 -0400
          Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-01 13:25 -0700
          Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-02 08:19 -0400
            Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-04-02 07:03 -0700
          Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-04-02 08:31 -0400
            Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-02 09:21 -0400
              Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-04-02 10:11 -0400
                Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-02 12:30 -0400
      Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-04-01 23:27 -0400
        Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2013-04-02 09:40 +0100
        Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-02 08:20 -0400
  Re: Standardization as a Road to More Choice Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2013-03-31 12:28 -0700

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