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From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM vs. Mac - Long (was Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!)
Message-ID: <1989Dec28.180726.4938@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Date: 28 Dec 89 18:07:26 GMT
References: <5842@eos.UUCP> <106@lad.scs.com>
Reply-To: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Sean Smith)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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In article <106@lad.scs.com> lad@lad.scs.com (Lawrence A. Deleski) writes:
>From article <5842@eos.UUCP>, by woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood):
>
>[tons 'o mindless bullshit deleted] 
> 
>> remember,  if you make something idiot-proof, then idots will use it!
>>
>> /***woody ****************************************************************
>
>This man is obviously insane.  The Mac *is* idiot-proof ...

[Some stuff deleted]
>         Lawrence A. Deleski             |       Silicon Compiler Systems

	Well, what Woody was trying to say was Shaw's Principle, which
states:

	"Design a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to
	 use it."

	To Laurence, I reply with a saying I heard from my Operations
Management professor:

	"Nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenious."

	C'mon, guys, this is getting a little silly.  Yes, both machines have
their merits, but this is just senseless name-calling.

	Sean

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