Re: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (was some unrelated subject)

[teg redhat com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)]

"Marco" <m fioretti inwind it> writes:

> ......
> > The problem, i.e. *some* of the reasons to fight bloatware, is that:
> > 
> > 1) This is an arrogant, egoistic, pompous and very "mentally closed"
> >    attitude: ........
> .......
> > 2) Even those with enough income to throw away......
> ........
> > 3) It is *bad* to dump something which works perfectly.......
> 
> Oh, and I forgot to said that many of the reasons used in the article
> to justify bloat are perfectly valid.... for commercial closed software.
> 
> Release dates, market windows.... We are the one supposed to "release
> when it's good and ready, and the hell with deadlines", right? Or not?

I'd rather have eg. a good mozilla 1.0 for a Celeron 366 and up in 2002
than wait until 2003 for it working on a P133. 

Arguments can often be made that with a finite amount of resources,
correctness and features are more important than running on ancient
hardware (my machine in 1995 was a P133).

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.