North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it,there was a mail worm released today
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Actually IMO putting all their crap in their own dir is a feature > rather than a bug. I really hate the way unix apps just put their stuff > all over the place so it's an incredible pain to get rid of it again. Putting all crap in the working directory is bad design (no way to separate read-only stuff from mutable). Unix/Linux design (all over the place) is pure and simple lack of discipline, or "hack before thinking" approach. Plan 9 nearly got it right, but for the lack of persistent mounts (it's all in an rc file, executed at each login). > I think MacOS got it right: for most apps, installing just means > dumping the icon wherever you want it to be, deinstalling is done by > dropping it in the trash. The fact that the icon hides a directory with > a bunch of different files in it is transparent to the user. That's UI. Inside it's the same Unix crap. > I think MS's tradeoffs are mainly time to market vs even faster time to > market. It's mostly "We don't care, we don't have to, we're The Microsoft" mentality. --vadim
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