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I think you and I may have different definitions of a great OS. To me, a great OS should use the machine efficiently, yes, but it's more important for it to be
by mwcampbell 7y ago
I think you and I may have different definitions of a great OS. To me, a great OS should use the machine efficiently, yes, but it's more important for it to be usable by all people regardless of factors beyond their control.
- bin0 7y ago> all people Really? All? And if not all, are we back to the ADA reasonable accommodation standard? What bugs me about the "accessible or bust" people is that they will deprive 99% of the population of something because 1% can't have it. There's some on-going case about university courses in California of some sort being publicly released but "not being accessible". So now, no one can access it because they got taken to court. It costs zero dollars (or very few) to publish existing material to the world; it costs quite a bit more to add stuff to it. Maybe a great OS should be available which can run quickly without accessibility features, but slower if they are explicitly installed by an end user. Like it or not, it's a balancing act between how much we're willing to give up and for how few people.