On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:22:19PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> But it's obviously a daydream: There are no smart software users.
Tragic but true - at a guess, I'd say that > 99.99% of software users don't
have the first clue that software has source code, and > 90% of them don't
even know what software is - they just turn on their computer, and either IT
works, or IT doesn't - they've no idea of the distinction between hardware,
firmware, OS software, application software - it's all just "the computer"
or IT (and that IT is not an acronym)
Niall
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