[Klug-general] Re: Mark Shuttleworth interview

[Peter Childs]

On 21/08/06, Karl Lattimer <karl at nncc.info> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:19 +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
> > On 21/08/06, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Good god, sometimes i really wonder about the common sense of linux people.
> > >
> > > If you were making a huge site for a huge amount of visitors then you
> > > would instantly want to cater for the majority, *NOT* a minority that
> > > _choose_ to use something different from the rest. They will have far
> > > better things to do than cater to the whim of a miniscule group who
> > > think that people should cater for them even though they have chosen
> > > to stray from what is considered the overwhelming norm.
> > >
> > > If you're pissed off with your manual car would you tell your car
> > > manufacturer to change it to an automatic?
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> >
> > Yes but were not saying that.
> > We are saying use a tool that everyone can use. Not just a minority
> > group of users who all happern to use the same operating system,
>
> I don't see how that applies... until
>
> > Ok in
> > this case that minority group happerns to be the majority.
>
> YOU DESTROY YOUR OWN ARGUMENT WITH A LAUGHABLE CONTRADICTION!!!
>

No I don't Majority is not the same as Everyone.

Ie Everyone is made up of Microsoft Users (Majority in this case) plus
Linux Users plus Mac Users plus BeOS etc etc
The aim is to get everyone. In this case Microsoft plus Linux plus Mac
not just Microsoft. This is the media the aim to get as many people as
possible. Its not my fault the split is not equal.

Peter.