[Sussex] Argos Catalogue surprise

[Nic James Ferrier]

Nicholas Butler <nik at reducedhackers.com> writes:

>>>  
>> 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.

The ESR article was _some_ time ago.

I looked at setting up a printer relatively recently and it was still
painful.


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Nic Ferrier
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