On 12/25/2016 09:25 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Sun, 2016-12-25 at 13:38 -0600, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
On 12/25/2016 11:53 AM, Mark Woolfson (Notebook) wrote:
If the server decision makers had not gone for a server designed by accountants but a server designed by engineers then you would not have this problem.
maybe accountants in U.K., not is U.S.A..
accountants in U.S.A. only 'know' about spreadsheets because that is what they are paid for.
engineering is by engineers because that is what they are paid for.
neither is going to do something they are not paid for.
long live the "American Way".
Lack of vision and inspiration always hampers the betterment of our unique world.
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this is true,
Great people, all over our planet, usually do a bit more than they are paid for. The resulting benefit for others is incalculable.
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'great people' are usually the exception.
Just think of what the Centos founders did, unpaid, and their hardworking successes achieved - never an eye on the clock and never restricting their efforts to make something not just work, but work well.
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other exception as near all things connected FSF and Linux.
both are 'given' "in a world with out fences".