Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xterms --featureRICH --suggestions?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 28/01/2014 14:28, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> Really?, Try that approach at a carrier network support center, where
>> > new stuff is rolled out to cutomers without first explaing, warning
>> > and offering up options.....   It's shows a blatant disrespect for
>> > the existing customer base.  Nobody in business, treats existing
>> > customers that way, imho.  In industry, punks with that mentality get
>> > *FIRED*....
> Yes, really. People boot a distro's live CD, maybe install it, and make
> quick decisions about whether they like it or not.
>


James isn't talking about whatever the latest flavour of the month
happens to be that you like. He's talking about the firmware running on
carrier core, or on the black box installed at the customer's edge. Or
the company portal that lets our customers drill deep down into their
traffic stats or do monitoring or investigate billing.

I work in carrier and that shit is sacrosanct so change it at your
peril. I really couldn't care what desktop the user runs today as I
don't support any of them, just the API we present to the world.

I think you are looking at this from the POV of a desktop end user,
while James and I are talking about infrastructure that the end user
only gets to use, never change.

James's point is valid though - corporates like to claim they will never
unleash shit like kdepim on an unsuspecting world and fire anyone who
lets it slip through. That's what they say, in reality it happens all
the time anyway. Which doesn't change that very few of the kdepim-4
releases should never have seen the light of day with a release tag


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Alan McKinnon
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