On Friday 05 January 2007 16:49, William Case wrote: > > People with an 80 IQ should be just as welcome using a computer as > someone with a 120 IQ and beyond. > And why not? As long as it can be set up to meet their needs, fine. But to do this we *must* retain choice. Without it they would be exposed to unsuitable conditions that would make the experience most unsatisfactory. > I believe that Linux and Linux applications do not need to choose > between what features, prompts or plugins to include and what to leave > out. It can do both. It can start as an appliance, with simple, clear, > 'just works' defaults but also have a powerful configuration editor so > that once people are familiar with the basic tools they can begin to > make personalized adjustments. If prompts, asking me to save are > annoying, then let me turn them off. > Exactly. Retain the functionality, but give and enhance choice. Anne
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