Re: SEUL: What's so hard about Linux...

[Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net>]

On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Aldo-Pier Solari wrote:

> The bottleneck here is not a technically oriented 
> computer science student but the non-technically oriented user (who 
> do not know anything about hardware, cumputer jargon, OSes ... etc.).
> That's the challenge for the project.
> 
We're attacking this wrong - we're hackers.  And, hackers are the only
people that can implement what newbies want, HOWEVER, a hacker is
virtually incapable of understanding the nature of a newbie, just as a
newbie has no idea why a hacker likes computers...  Now, we are incapable
of understanding what a newbie wants, then >>WHY<< are we trying to design
an interface for newbies?  We need to go to a win95 list, and pick out a
pack of newbies to tell us what to make.  Get them over into a list, have
them write up what they want, we laugh, and do what we can.  TTYL!


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