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Software that 'just works'

Submitted by jdub on Fri, 2003-02-21 18:06. Interviews
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"He chose to paint the situation that exists between GNOME and KDE as a picture of glorious harmony - but then one can only ask questions. One can't dictate answers." So, what do you do when you're given a set of unprofessional and highly combative interview questions? You dodge the bullets and tell the truth! :-) Here's an interview I did with a local newspaper last week. Harsh!

Re: Software that 'just works'

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2003-02-23 18:11.

I defy you to show me one line where he says that he dislikes sane defaults. He says that sane defaults are good, but who are we to prevent the users from doing things like they want?

He wants to let the users decide what they want to do. If you don't know how to change anything, you won't change anything, and you can be perfectly happy with the defaults. If you want to change everything possible, you can, and you're still happy. Havoc is only thinking about the first part, without the second part.

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