Comment Customers fault (Score 1) 882
"A key problem area was interacting with the corporate Windows network. When will this stuff finally be ironed out?"
This problem cannot be solved in any permanent way by programmers, it has to be solved by customers volutarily educating themselves, which geeks can at best subtly influence. Ramming info down throats from soapboxes is far less effective.
Programmers can make a temporary fix, like Samba (much respect), but Microsoft will just do their best break that "threat" in the next version of the respective software (or in current versions by piggybacking these "fixes" in "security updates").
Only when people stop equating universality in the computer world with Microsoft, and start equating said universality with Open Standards, only then will people opt to stop buying MS. Sadly this collective ignorance seems to be growing, not shrinking.
It might help to start conversationally asking the people you know if they are a "sharecropper" or not:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/ 07/12/ WebsThePlace
BTW, I think the "sharecropper" concept applies to all regular computer users, not just programmers.
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This problem cannot be solved in any permanent way by programmers, it has to be solved by customers volutarily educating themselves, which geeks can at best subtly influence. Ramming info down throats from soapboxes is far less effective.
Programmers can make a temporary fix, like Samba (much respect), but Microsoft will just do their best break that "threat" in the next version of the respective software (or in current versions by piggybacking these "fixes" in "security updates").
Only when people stop equating universality in the computer world with Microsoft, and start equating said universality with Open Standards, only then will people opt to stop buying MS. Sadly this collective ignorance seems to be growing, not shrinking.
It might help to start conversationally asking the people you know if they are a "sharecropper" or not:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003
BTW, I think the "sharecropper" concept applies to all regular computer users, not just programmers.
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