-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian K. White wrote:
Btw, seems that this discussion has moved to the religious debate stage. Can we at least hold off the snark?
Perhaps it sounds that way, but Adam is correct on all technical points and so he should absolutely not allow anyone to get the idea that the dissenting opinions hold any water if he cares about accuracy of documentation and the safety of others.
If the inarguability of facts looks like the unshakability of faith, well that's just too bad for those who practice faith in things other than facts.
Why should he or anyone else care if anyone else understands the issues here? Because unfortunately none of us exists alone. One cannot simply opt to do the right thing while allowing others to be stupid if they want. I can't use .odt, .ogg, and .ogv files which would be better for _everyone_ if we all did, because too many of the people I must interact with don't understand and don't care why they should not use .xls, .mp3, and h264 files because as far as they can tell it "works for them".
When too many people don't understand something and/or don't care to even try to understand, then the broken system that popularity==validity results in the knowledgeable minority being forced by circumstances outside their control to live with, participate in, and even commit, broken crap themselves even though they know better and are willing to do better.
Thanks for that.
Used to observe to our network team that for most of the user community X500 was a night bus from the London Termini to Heathrow airport... for some reason that did not go down well... :-) The show stopper is not always the validity of (or facts about) a technology, but the occasionally valid non technical reasons for not deploying a technology. Non technical decision makers will need answers to at least three questions in some form. a) How much will it cost? b) How much will it save? c) What is the benefit (to our organisation)? That is the simple bit, assuming the case is accepted and a decision is made. (At the moment there is consensus about the worth of the technology here, without any real attempt to address the three points above). In an ideal work scenario, if one is lucky enough to work in environment that does not question the judgement of the IT team and has relatively benign inter-departmental politics, the decision once made tends to stay made The reality is often different, where one has to protect ones rear from ones technical "colleagues", and deal with (often toxic) inter-departmental politics, such decisions can get badly warped. Dealing with Technology is easy, dealing with people is hard. It is not surprising in this context progress is frequently slow. At this time, I do not intend to move to IPv6 on my local network as it will incur a cost (my time) for little perceivable benefit and AFAIK my ISP has no plans to move to IPv6 for DSL services, (the ISP does not at this time use non routable IPv4 addresses anyway and probably be very happy if got the customer base large enough for address space to become a problem). For others YMMV - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyLiecACgkQasN0sSnLmgISHACeJxvyLV7zvKlVjBUlKUY6n8iE rL0AoIE3aomj6MnNabKRfeqNxnQ1K1eE =5fk4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org