[Sussex] Argos Catalogue surprise

[Nicholas Butler]

>>  
> Eric Raymond seems to agree with you, but I think it's a user 
> interface problem, not an underlying technology one now that CUPS has 
> become more stable. Look at 
> http://catb.org/esr/writings/cups-horror.html for his famous rant on 
> this. I seem to be the only one who suggested additional open source 
> guidelines, rather than merely agreeing with his rant.
That the article was written in  April of this year is more 
interesting.As geeks do have a tendency to point to Blogs and articles 
which  can affirm an argument because we are looking for evidence of a 
similar position. I guess though that in this case the development of 
CUPS  may well have been spurred on by this and other comments because 
those experiences whilst real may not now be relevant.  It would be 
interesting to find  what ESR feels about CUPS today.  This does go to a 
point that is quite common in mankind, bad experiences  mean ideas will 
be constantly discounted or rejected. On the basis that "oh it was crap 
last year" or "not possible a few years back" we  make  decisions about 
positions or ideas for now. That is not a BAD thing except where things 
change and move ON I guess such as in th case of Open Source 
development. Now this is not a pop back , opposing position to Nico, I 
just realised something about how I view the discussions and read the 
information and make a descicion, so thanks Nico.


Nik