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I don't think this comment deserved downvotes, because it makes an important point. If we want to preserve open standards - and I definitely do - then using the

I don't think this comment deserved downvotes, because it makes an important point. If we want to preserve open standards - and I definitely do - then using them has to be straightforward. Think about it: how many of us grow our own food, generator own electricity, dig our own wells? Damn few. We subscribe to the big central services for the things we consume, because life is short. We cannot expect other professions to grant us special consideration that we don't grant to others.

bane 12y ago
Right. If the standard that we apply to computing were applied everywhere else, we'd all be sitting at home spinning fabric from the wool we just sheered from our goats that we raised with the crops we just harvested. Nobody does that because it's not a good way to do things. One of the problems that tech people have is they get mired down in the details, seeing each step as some kind of accomplishment, when each step is just a necessary part of the whole. Raising a crop from seed to harvest isn't easy, but the goal is to have clothes -- yet tech people will spend an impossibly enormous amount of time on tweaking the harvesting process when it's all just going to end up as wool underpants in the end. And of course, downvotes because I'm supplying uncomfortable facts about population distributions that every marketer on the planet knows.