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From: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <5847@eos.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 18:29:28 GMT
References: <5842@eos.UUCP> <10684@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <10684@encore.Encore.COM> jdarcy@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>
>If you're not willing to work a little harder to make the users' lives a
>little easier (a net gain in the long run), you're a pretty fucking lousy
>engineer (please note that this is a conditional statement).  I'm tired
>of the "technological" priesthood" who want technology for themselves and
>don't give a shit about bringing it to the rest of the world.
>
>Sorry for the profanity, but my patience is running *very* thin.
>

fuck your patience... does this mean i have to put up with apple's bullshit
when i write programs that are totally transparent to the user?  i mean
why should i have to suffer with someone else's idea of a user interface
when my programs have none, because they use none, the user never sees it?

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