The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story Publication: Eric S. Raymond's Home Page Date: Feb 27 2004 Reporter: Eric S. Raymond I've just gone through the experience of trying to configure CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System. It has proved a textbook lesson in why nontechnical people run screaming from Unix. This is all the more frustrating because the developers of CUPS have obviously tried hard to produce an accessible system — but the best intentions and effort have led to a system which despite its superficial pseudo-friendliness is so undiscoverable that it might as well have been written in ancient Sanskrit. Read comments Read full article Read full article in new window See other articles by Eric S. Raymond See other articles published by Eric S. Raymond's Home Page Today's headlines Headlines for Feb 27, 2004   Comments Subject Posted by Date Addendum to a CUPS HOWTO ? ldijon 27 Feb, 11:15 [ all comments ]
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