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I wonder if Levi Strauss would have made billions selling his blue jeans if he had said that the zipper was "sold separately." I wonder if cell phones would be as ubiquitous as they are today if everyone had to learn to speak binary in order to communicate using them. I wonder how many people would drive cars if they had to produce their own fuel. I wonder. The sad truth is that this is how most of the open source world works. If you want to install one program, you're often expected to find all its prerequisites and get them installed first.
"Zipper sold separately"? Never wore 501's, eh? Real Levi's have buttons, not zippers!
"On May 20, 1873, Strauss and Davis received United States patent #139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants. Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans..." (Wikipedia)
"It culminated in 1914 with Gideon Sundbäck's invention of the "Hookless Fastener No. 2", the first version of the zipper without any major design flaws and essentially indistinguishable from modern zippers." (Wikipedia)
"On May 20, 1873, Strauss and Davis received United States patent #139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants. Levi Strauss & Co. began manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans..." (Wikipedia)
"It culminated in 1914 with Gideon Sundbäck's invention of the "Hookless Fastener No. 2", the first version of the zipper without any major design flaws and essentially indistinguishable from modern zippers." (Wikipedia)
While it is true that users should be given the resources needed to accomplish their purpose, a strategy I have for a decade or more called objective-based development, I do take exception to some things in this article. First, one of the greatest rip-offs of all time are seemingly simple make you a millionaire websites sold on eBay, with the general requirement that the buyer also buy-in to their hosting plan, always overpriced, under juiced and with heavy penalties for being a day late on the rent. To offer that would place an honest developer in with seriously flawed company. Second, developers should lose their loyalty to any Linux or BSD distro and think of the end customer. If s/he does that, he will create his own distro which is transparent to the application, and use the 80-20 rule for distros. Windows, because of its ubiquity, is easy.
