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>> "I'm certainly willing to inconvenience myself for my political beliefs. I've done it before and I'll do it again. But in this case, the inconvenience is to
by rmk2 14y ago
>> "I'm certainly willing to inconvenience myself for my political beliefs. I've done it before and I'll do it again.
But in this case, the inconvenience is too great. Apple's approach is resulting in a product that is just so much more usable than Mozilla's (and especially Google's) product that using it all day, every day would be just too much of a pain in the ass."
This seems to be a wee contradiction, you don't mind inconvenience when it's for political conviction, however, the inconvenience stops at tabs in your browser and your browser's UI. Luckily there are the many, many, many political beliefs that do not touch on the unsurmountable problem posed by UX/UI for which one could live with a bit of inconvience.
I don't mind some inconvenience to take to the street and partake in a demonstration, but my sofa's user experience is just so much better. I'm certainly willing to inconvenience myself for my political beliefs, though.
- ajross 14y agoHe's explaining it correctly: some amount of inconvenience is worth some amount of adherence to principle. Different people put that bar in different places -- jwz is willing to compromise in places where rms isn't. And neither is about to light themselves on fire or blow up a building for free software. Now, you can argue with his metrics if you like (I happen to like Chrome a lot, though not so much Firefox or Safari these days). But that's just an opinion, it doesn't make what he says a contradiction.
- rmk2 14y agoI just seemed off to me considering how he (probably rightly so) preempts most critique throughout in a somewhat hyperbolic yet lacks the the same tone in his closing statements.