🚀 go-pugleaf

frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton) writes:

> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
> 
> > [re: 2 - 3 week configuration time] I certainly wouldn't. And I didn't 
> > have to to get Waffle running, either.
> 
> I'm happy for you.  You're real smart, aren't you.  It didn't take me
> that long either.  But I know of *quite a few* people who expressed an
> interest in running Waffle, downloaded the software from my site, and
> could *not* get things working without undue torture expressed by them,
> and quite often not without assistance on my part.  Not everyone is as
> saavy as you appear to be.

Points to a need for a decent installation program, as I've recently noted
in another post.

> Yes, Waffle is powerful.  But not everybody wants to run their own
> site.  I wonder how long the people in the MIS department where I am 
> employed would last if they told all their users that if they wanted to 
> run payroll, or budgetary accounting, or SAS, or assessment, that they 
> would simply have to go out and purchase their own VAX to run the apps,
> but could use the MIS's VAX to store the data.

I have some questions in my own mind on the suitability of such people in
regards to their actions a good net.citizens.  It has been argued that the
US government was not truly established with all persons in mind, but rather
for the so-called cultural elite.  I'm not so sure that that idea is not
widely held on the Usenet, and, as I've just said, I've not yet made up
my own mind if I look forward to such a situation.

My apologies if that sounds elitist or biased, but it is only my attempt to
illustrate one major road-block ahead of the "offline readers for the masses"
crowd, namely that the majority of the so-called powers-that-be on the Usenet
(if there are such animals) would rather it just didn't happen!

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